I need to be able to call a Visual FoxPro application without seeing any application window flash. Here's the situation: We have an HTML form that uses a Perl/CGI script that launches a VFP execuatble file, which in turn performs tha actual insertion of data into the FoxPro table. The executable consists of one program file; this program is the only file in the project, built so I could compile it into an executable.

The problem is that when the CGI script calls the executable, you see a flash on screen, which is the FoxPro application window opening and closing. The server doesn't like this. The end result is the program does not run to completion and the data is not inserted.

How can I run this executable without causing that window flash? It has been suggested to me that I need to use COM automation to do this, but I've never done that before and don't know how to proceed.

I would be extremely grateful if someone could give me some info about this.
Thank you in advance!


Henry