>>>>>I have a program linextrack.exe which works fine when run from inside VFP
>>>>>
>>>>>But it wont work if I run it from explorer by cliking on j:\global\linex\linextrack.exe
>>>>>
>>>>>What am I missing
>>>>
>>>>Please post the errormessage. Or is it just - nothing? What is the prog doing? Just ?"Hello World" will be visible in the IDE but never from explorer.
>>>>
>>>>In general? Runtimes are properly installed?
>>>>Event loop running?
>>>
>>>No error messages
>>>
>>>Program finishes but does not create data files from incoming data
>>>
>>>Can I set it up to run from vfp rather than as an exe?
>>
>>Define: incomming data
>>You have some interface, enter data and the data will not be stored to disk? What data format is this? text / tables ... What comand do you use to store? A code snippet, a symbolic, anything.
>>The IDE presets stuff (DISPLAY STATUS) aus you do in Tools / Options. A exe without IDE has other defaults (or it hase the VFP defaults while your IDE might have other values).
>>
>>Only my EUR 0.02.
>>
>>
>>You can run inside VFP as Thomas pointed out. But only on a machine with VFP installed. Not a good idea on customers place at all.
>
>Have solved it - I needed to set exact on and to increase the memowidth
>
>Thanks all for your help
>
>Colin

Fine.

Pro tip:

Use DISPLAY STATUS both in IDE and you app to see what else you need to set to make the app act the same.