>Well that works, but leaves the question why the samples for themedcontrols are running when started by double-clucking on the phx in the windows-explorer. There are paths set but nothing else. And why are they failing when I load the same project in the IDE by "File->Open"?
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>Best regards
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>Thomas

Most likely you need to either change the default path for VFP9, or you must add a few path settings.