Hi!

There are 2 workarounds.

1 is tremendous and raser old-style. Use KEYBOARD "{ESCAPE}" command to put ESC key into keyboard buffer. When dialog box appears, Cancel will be pressed automatically by keyboard buffer. Note that you require to SET ESCAPE OFF and disable any ON KEY LABLEL ESCAPE to use that. After your program finished use KEYBOARD "" CLEAR to clear out extra keys from buffer. Note also thet in error handle your equire to use KEYBOARD "{ESCAPE}" again since previous key in buffer alreade released.

2-nd, and I like it the most, is to use API functions. In Windows you can define hooks that handle all events for application. Temporarily you can set up a hook that will catch window creation events. More, you can disable it! So, when VFP tries to open dialog box it just do not open. Usually this is treated as pressing of Cancel button in dialog box.
Note that above way is approved to hide compilation progress window in run-time. I did not used it for dialog boxes, so I don't know about effects. Note also that you require to know a lot about API to use them. Better to make mentioned hook in C++ or Delphi because in VFP it is a bit messy.

>Vlad,
>Thanks for the answer, but I don't like it. There has to be some way around this. I have been plagued by this as I am writing a conversion program. I finally was able to pin it down to a typeo. The problem was it occured on about the 8000th time thru a loop. Debugging is hard under those circumstances.