Hi again, John,

I've just played with this and come to the conclusion that trying to automate this or expose Access by making it visible bollixes up the app. My suggestion would be in these cases to go to Access, open the database exclusively and get rid of the password.


>One of my chaps just tried out mdbtodbc on a password-protected mdb. The Access password dialog comes up several times in the Access.Application, which is fine, except that the VFP form retains focus over the top of the password dialog which needs to be clicked in the taskbar. You may want to put an option about that (? password textbox/"has password" checkbox) on your form so if the mdb is password protected it moves the focus to Access for the login or tells the user to do it themselves rather than waiting passively.
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>Regards
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>JR