Screen, Screens and _Screen are reserved words. VFP may have gotten confused trying to parse your command.

Barbara

>After testing some code on my machine, I had a user who got an error message that read:
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>Fatal error: Exception code = C0000005...
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>Additional lines on the error message helped me to identify the offending line of code. It was MODI WINDOW SCREEN which I have used since the Fox2X days to reset "properties" for the main FoxPro window.
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>I fixed the problem by substituting the following code.
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>WITH _SCREEN
> .CLOSABLE = .T.
> .CAPTION = "MicroSoft Visual FoxPro"
> .ICON = ""
>ENDWITH
>
>I don't understand why I had a problem in the first place. More than once, I've had a problem that didn't seem to be a problem. In many of these cases, I've simply found another way to do the same thing and solved my "problem". That's what I did again here.