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>This is fine for Sovereign Apps like MS Office products, but what for a parasite program or a background running utility program with a minimal interface? This bug is unacceptable.

Why is Office any different than a Fox application? In office, you open documents for editing. In a Fox application you open data entry windows.

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>I feel that the fact that we have to specify SCREEN=OFF in an external program is a weakness of VFP 5.0 as well. This should be a compile time option. It is ridiculous that I have to ship a second file along with my executable, and that file is forever ties to my program.

What's the big deal? You already ship other files with your application. DBF, DBC, CDX, not to mention any ActiveX controls and the Fox runtime files.

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>Maybe this is a remnant of Fox's roots as a data manipulation tools and not an app building tool, but this has obviously changed, and so should the scheme.

hmmm...I seem to remeber the first version of FoxBase having the ability to create applications. Even dBase II did this.