>>I use the VFP screen all the time. Go into Word and close all the documents. Hmm...looks alot like he VFP _SCREEN. Do the same in Excel. or Powerpoint. However, I do see your point regarding IE.
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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.
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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.
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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.


I am gonna jump in here a agree with you 100%
I ALWAYS use SCREEN=OFF and hate having to have a config.fpw file to do it.
When a VB or VC++ app locads it does not show a blank screen.
This "FEATURE" must be fixed.