>>>I am trying to create and app that will be turned into a service (using srvany). I have one form with a timer that checks every so often for certain files. The problem is that even though the visible property of the form is set to .f. it resets itself to .t. and is visible. Basically I have main.prg that says 'do form frmmain' followed by a read events.
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>>>The form runs but is visible. Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?
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>>Have you included SCREEN=OFF in your CONFIG.FPW?
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>No, I hadn't tried that because I wanted the screen available in case I wanted to bring up the debugger or something. Should not the screen be there with an invisible form if the form.visible=.f.?

OIC. When I saw you wanted to create an NT Service, I thought you wanted the entire application to be invisible.

Hmm... I don't know if you can do what you're trying to do. VFP might want something to have the focus, and for that to happen it must be visible.

You could try programmatically adding an object to _Screen and working with that. Is it *just* a timer you need, or is there other stuff on the form?