>With VFP 5.0 you won't need the Win32 functions to hide the screen as
>you can do that with the CONFIG.FPW command.

You're right. I mis-read the post and thought he was talking about 3.0. I should get more sleep (s)....

>I've found that a good way to do a splash screen is to design a self
>contained bitmap and display it in the VFP main window. That way you

I still like the object idea as then you can easily add in params for stuff like title, author, copyright, etc....

Scot.