>Brian,
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>>Are you suggesting that these dialogs are appearing underneath the top level form of my application?
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>The dialogs appear "within" the _screen, if the _screen.Visible = .F. the dialogs can't show. If the _screen.Visible = .t., but it's position is outside the viewable postion of the screen the dialogs position themselves in the viewable part of the screen.
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>I don't think the Export Wizard is a redistributable part of VFP. So you won't be able to use it in the runtime version.
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>>The dialogs I am trying to invoke were added to my application menu by first creating a 'quick' menu, looking in the menu designer and copying the commands that were produced in the quick menu. (ie. _mfi_pgset for print setup, or _mfi_export for file export).
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>>These commands do work if I run my executable from within the VFP command window but they do not work if I run my executable from the windows desktop. This is what makes me think I am failing to reproduce some aspect of the VFP environment in the environment of my compiled executable.

David,

Thanks for your help. I was unaware that I was running a VFP 'wizard' for these tasks. I read an article in Foxpro Advisor that described incorporating these tasks into an application. I suppose the article should have been more clear regarding the issue that some or all of these '_menu' functions may not be distributable.

I'll have to try using 'official' active X controls for these functions.

Brian J. Gruselle
Diversified Data Systems Inc.