I appreciate enormously the patience of all who have responded to my messages thus far, but I am afraid my explanation of the problem has been inadequate. So here’s my problem completely in a tiny application I’ve made just for testing it. It includes a MAIN.PRG file like this:

DO FORM MYFORM
READ EVENTS
DO CLEANUP

PROCEDURE CLEANUP
CLEAR EVENTS
CLOSE ALL

a form, MYFORM with just one command button with THISFORM.RELEASE in the click event, and a ShowWindow value of 2, AS-TOP-LEVEL-FORM.

and no table!

I’ve included a config.fpw file in the project that says nothing but SCREEN=OFF

I build an exe, run it, and before the form appears I get a white window with Visual FoxPro on the title bar and a few menu buttons for one or two seconds.

I’ve tried running c:\myfolder\myprog.exe -T

I’ve tried _screen.left = -5000 in the main file

I’ve tried screen=off in a config.fpw

Nothing works.

Must I use the screen with its menu? And if so how do I control the look of the screen?

Thank you again.