>Hi Agnes,
>
>so was I (however, first half only, second half in 2 weeks)
>I hope your recreation will last longer than your first day at work... ;-)

Customer is on vacation too ....
3 weeks "Mecklenburger Seenplatte" have to last for the rest of the year. Don't like long vacations, I like to have a free day from time to time.
>
>'til now I couldn't reproduce a functional solution as it worked in my first attempt. But as we are still using VFP9SP1 it might help to give SP2 a try. Did you do that already?

Vice verca. I've started with SP2 and after that I've tried with SP1 and plain VFP9.

Agnes
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>>Hi Thomas,
>>
>>thank you for your help.
>>Sorry for beeing late but I was on my summer vacation
>>
>>If find a solution, just let me know.
>>
>>Agnes
>>>Hi Agnes,
>>>
>>>I tried to reproduce my approach from last week and changed my exe the same way as I think I did the first time, but now it only gives the same reaction as you describe it in your post. It's really weird... I then changed the positions of the preview and builder app including paths and also setting an explicit path to the frx but the preview app isn't able to find the frx anymore.
>>>
>>>A direct call of the preview from within the exe is doing fine, so it seems to be a problem within the reportbuilder itself. Perhaps looking into the sources of the reportbuilder project might help, but I don't have the time now for further research. Sorry :-(