>From my VFP application I am running another executable using ! /N7 xyz.exe. The executable is a background process without a window, but when running the executable it results in losing the focus of the VFP application. So the user must click on the form again to continue working. I try to set the focus to a textbox on the form, but the application itself does not have focus anymore.
>The best would be if the focus would not go away in the first place, but I tried different ways and could not succeed. Any ideas?

*ShellX.prg:
*To use:
*
*lcProg = 'Yourpath\yourprog.exe'
*lcPar = 'some parameters' && Drop this line if no parameters
*ShellX(lcProg, lcPar)
Lparameters tcURL, tcParameter
if empty(tcParameter)
   tcParameter = ''
Endif
#define SW_HIDE 0
#DEFINE SW_SHOWNORMAL 1
#DEFINE SW_SHOWMINIMIZED 2
#DEFINE SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED 3
*!*   Legal verbs: open, edit, print, find, explore, NULL
DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN shell32.dll ; 
   INTEGER hndWin, STRING cAction, STRING cFileName, ; 
   STRING cParams, STRING cDir, INTEGER nShowWin
ShellExecute( 0, "open", tcURL, tcParameter , "", SW_SHOWNORMAL )