>>Terry, what you're trying to do by including a GUI interface in an OLE Automation Server is to create a complex control, something that VFP can't do
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>Yes it can! It is not actually an Active-X control, but you can ship a COM component as an .EXE and it can have a UI!

Yes, it can have a UI. No, it can't interact in the event loop of the process that invokes it.

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>>Create your mid-tier object with VFP, and if you need to insert a GUI into another application, create a control that talks to your VFP server in another language.
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>This is a good recomendation, but not a requirement.
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>BOb