Hi David,

I found this gotcha while developing a small utility not too long ago. :-) It seems to me the "system" dialogs should be of "desktop" type, not requiring a visible application desktop to display on their own accord. Do you happen to know why they do?

Bill

>Brian,
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>I think to be able to see the printer dialog, which you can also call via sys(1037) that _screen.Visible will have to be .t.
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>>Suprisingly enough, however, the printer dialog does not work out side the development environment. Even though I have VFP installed on my machine, running the executable on my PC produces no results, as mentioned earlier in this thread.