Hi David
I'm Really sorry but it doesn't work. when i put back the screen=off in the config.fpw it gives me again the error Exception code = C00000005

In fact what i want to do is hide the main visual foxpro until my app is ready to show. So may be i can use the same technique we can use to make a splash screen. But my problem is i don't realy know the technique to make a splash screen

If you already made a splash screen
May be you can give me which technique you used

Thank's for all
Rocky Boy...


>Rock,
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>There shouldn't be any special character in the message or the code, you can ignore it.
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>I'd leave the screen=off in your config.fpw. Turning the screen "visible" off screen during the shutdown portion of your app is just a work around for the crash you are getting. I did forget one line in the code yesterday:
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with _screen
>   .Top = -10000
>   .Left = -10000
>   .Height = 100
>   .Width = 100
>   .Visible = .t.
>endwith

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>moving the _screen and then setting it visible should not make it appear on the monitor at all.
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>>when i reply to your message i saw a caracter before the {with ... endwith} and i try to type it in my reply but it doesn't appear in the message so don't wory about the "i'm sorry what is this ..." the caractere that i type was not there