Denis ---
George Tasker wrote an outstanding article on how to have a mutually exclusive (mutex) application running in VFP where only one instance would run guaranteed.....this was (I think) in FoxPro Advisor November 1998. Since George frequents the Universal Thread, perhaps you might want to post a question directly to him?
>I want to be able to run another Windows application from within VFP5. How can I tell if it is currently running, and if it is, how do I bring it to the screen.
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>Also, how do I stop execution of the VFP program while this application is running?
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>Thanks,
>Dennis
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