>Put a NOWAIT on the MODI FILE command.

Thanks for hint. In fact, my problem was due to having
_screen.activeform.name <> 'SENTTOPIC' as 'skip for' condition somewhere in menu without checking whether there is an active form.


>>I'd like to have a Pad "What's New" in Foxpro system menu which invokes the the command =show_whatsnew() upon selection
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>>function show_whatsnew
>>modi file whatsnew.txt
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>>The window pops up okay first time ,but when the same pad is clicked again
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>>without closing window in the beginning of the application session it results in information box
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>>"Active form is not an object"
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>>pressing "Help" brings topic
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>>"name" is not an object (Error 1924)
>>This name was previously defined as something other than an object.
>>You have another occurrence of name.
>>Check your code for duplicate instances of name.
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>>It needs clicking "OK" button several times to clear this information box.
>>Then the problem cannot be reproduced .
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>>Because we sit in "modi file ..." any flags before that or skip for wexist("WHATSNEW.TXT" ) don't seem to be helpful. Any ideas ?
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>>Thank you.
>>Michael