Sergey,
That is exactly it. !!! I dont know how that got in there but it did.
Thanks very much for your help.

Regards,

Gerard




>Is it possible that you have CONFIG.FPW with SCREEN=OFF in this folder?
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>>George, thanks for your reply.
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>>I've done a little experimenting:
>>I have just set up a one line program, and made it into an app:
>>All it has is one line: Wait Window 'aaaaa'
>>This runs ok from command window (The Microsoft Visual Foxpro window shows)
>>If I run from a dos prompt, the wait comes up, but thats all !!, No VFP window
>>I set up a similar app in another folder, and it runs fine.
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>>I reckon from this there is omething either in the folder, or something missing, which is causing the VFP window not to show , but dont know what it is
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>>Regards,
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>>Gerard
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>>>>I have an app which is working fine when run from the develiopment version but if I run it as an exe, I cannot see anything.
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>>>>I Know the app is running because I can do a Ctrl/Alt/Del and my 'Confirm you want to exit' message box comes up ok and I can exit from the app.
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>>>>I have put in a few wait windows, ant they come up also.
>>>>but I cannot see anything.... e.g. if I run if from a Dos Prompt (Just by Typeing MYAPP.exe, the app runs (without a visible screen and I can see any wait windows)
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>>>>This was working up to a few weeks ago but I have obviously done something.
>>>>(I've cjecked some other apps and they seem ok)
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>>>>Anybody got any ideas ?
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>>>>Regards,
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>>>Gerard,
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>>>I'll take a guess. This isn't an SDI app, is it (Top-Level form)? If it is, perhaps the ShowWindow property got re-set from 2 to 0.