> When I issue screen.visible = .F. from my startup program, I get an error > in a seemingly unrelated place in my main form's init event "unknown object > blah blah..." On top of this, the login screen never shows up, and > EVERYTHING disappears, even from the list that appears when pressing > ctrl+alt+del. Restarting windows gives my "Are you sure you want to exit > the program?" messagebox displayed from the application's shutdown, but > this is the only hint left of my application running. MS articles say that > '_screen.visible = .F.' should be issued at the very beginning of the main > program.., but this has never worked for me- what I am I doing wrong? I'm curious: Why do you want to hide the running FoxPro application? To prevent it's startup from being visible? My guess is that you would want to have the _screen line at the very top of your startup program and then, just before it calls the first form, have _screen.visible = .t.. Why are you displaying Forms in a hidden application? --