>I am using Visual Maxframe Professional. When you start an application it loads all of the tables automatically.
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>I have a form where I need to open a table exclusively so that I can zap it. I am not having any luck accomplishing this.
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>Everytime I try to use the table exclusively I get the error "File in use". I have tried selecting the table and issuing a use command to close the table first but this doesn't help either.
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>Any ideas?

Have you subclassed the ctrApp class yet to something like ctrMyApp? If so, you can override the ctrMyApp.SetupTables() method with something like this:

LPArAMETERS tcDatabaseName, tlDisplay

IF DODEFAULT(tcDatabaseName, tlDisplay)
IF USED( "MyTableName" )
USE IN MyTableName
ENDIF

RETURN .T.
ELSE
RETURN .F.
ENDIF

This is slightly inefficient, as the table is opened and then closed, but nobody ever said I was a pretty programmer < g >.