>>You actually want the default VFP behavior - the cancel-suspend-debug-ignore-help dialog?
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>eggsaccly!
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>Then issue ON ERROR with no arguments at all, i.e. switch it completely off.
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>Nope. Done that. Both from the command window and in the Load method of the form...
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>> You probably got some default error handler from FFC classes.
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>yes, this is a possible as I have vpm installed. But I am not in the vpm environment when this behaviour occurs. And, it must be said, the vpm design time error handling is utterly appalling and frequently necessitates a TFS. I think I'd recognise it if this were standard vpm error handling! This is merely irritating not suicide inducing. Which is not to say it can't be anything to do with vpm, but I can't figure out how to check.
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You have said you are not in the VPM ( Visual Pro Matrix? ) environment. Can you simplify this problem. Keep only the code that creates the problem. Make sure that the form is sub-classed directly from the VFP base classes. We need
to make sure it is not a VPM issue.

In the error clause place whatever parameters are required and then a NODEFAULT. This is not going help but at least it will get rid of that error. :)