>>but just as it gets to the menu screen, it cuts
>out on
>>me, is it my coding? or did i forget to do
>>something??
>
>Do you mean that the application is closing just
>after the menu appear? If this is the case, that's
>because you don't have a READ EVENTS.

Thanks for the tip, I found out it was a combination of a bad vfp300.esl initial installation and i needed the read events command
thanks again,

by the way my .EXE file starts the window half open, do you know a command to make it FULL SCREEN in the start.prg?