>Ok, for me this is a real head banger.
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>I have a small program that runs fine from the command prompt but when compiled the EXE just flashes and exits.
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>The program has only one Modal form. The form has a timer that runs a prg to do some stuff. There is no menu and only an edit box with a scrolling log and a cancel button.
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>What is so strange is that I have another exe that is very similar that has been working for years. I even tried using the form from that project in this one. Same result. Before I really start tearing my project apart does anyone have any ideas as to where I went wrong?
>TIA

After you call your modal form, are you placing the READ EVENTS command to tell the application to start listening to Events? In some cases, depending on where you are executing code in the scheme of an application FoxPro doesn't stop when displaying a form, even if modal. From your main startup method, immediately after you load your form, insert the READ EVENTS command. This will tell FoxPro to place a "Block" of sorts on the code execution of that method, and allows the form you instantiated to display and have it's event's processed. When you close the last form from memory, you should execute the CLEAR EVENTS command, which tells FoxPro to continue executing code starting from the previous "READ EVENTS" position. This allows the application to exit properly.