Keith,

I wanted to do this several months ago and it eluded me. When I saw your message, it made me try again and here is how you can do it.

1. Make sure that you do a print screen of the edit section in explorer so you can go back to it if you need to.

2. In the default vfp directory, create a program called edprg.prg. This program just needs the lines:
PARAMETERS lcFiletoEdit
MODIFY COMMAND (lcFiletoEdit) NOWAIT
RETURN

3. In the Edit action screen, uncheck the DDE box.

4. In the action field, put the following: (put your own pathing in)
d:\vfp\vfp6.exe d:\vfp\edprg.prg %1

It seems to work pretty well for me. Let me know if you get it to work.

Bill

>I'm trying to figure out how to add an Edit selection to my Explorer context menu. Most of the time if I double click a .PRG from Win Explorer I want to edit a program as opposed to running it. In fact I can't *remember* the last time I wanted to run a PRG that way.
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>I'm looking at View > Options > File Type and under Microsoft Visual FoxPro Program the Open action has some DDE dialog. There's an Open message, but I've tried using an Edit message without much success.
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>It seems that what I'm trying to accomplish is very much like a drag-and-drop operation (uhhh...without dragging or dropping :-)
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>Two questions:
>1) is there a reference that talks about the various topics and messages that VFP understands?
>2) is there a way of doing what I'm trying to do?
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>Thanks for any assistance you can lend.
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> ...kt