Have you upgraded an application recently that might have changed the .ocx controls in your \windows\system subdirectory? This has happened to me before and is maddening. I ended up removing the ocx's, removing VFP, and then reinstalling everything.

HTH
>>>>I am trying to set up a form with an MSCOMM control. I am selecting it thru the OLE Container object and selecting the mscomm ocx. Most of the properties show an "Unknown OLE status error" and I cannot change them unless I do it run time. (via set step on and change thru the command box)
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>>>>Any ideas or guesses would be appreciated!
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>>>I found that some properties can only be set at runtime.
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>>>Craig
>>That would be ok, but upon starting up the form I get a messagebox repeating the error. I have tried setting the mscomm.init to turn openport property off. Perhaps I am setting it up incorrectly. How do you add the mscomm object to your forms?
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>When I've used MSCOMM, the MSCOMM properties show OLE errors, but they've never given me any problems at runtime. I wonder why I never got a messagebox. Maybe I'm doing something wrong here!
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>I'm setting the MSCOMM properties programmatically as needed. I've put MSCOMM in a container class, which has a bunch of methods to set the various properties and invoke various MSCOMM methods. For example, I have a closeport method with:
> if this.mscomm1.portopen
> this.mscomm1.portopen = .f.
> endif
>The port gets closed (in the form) by invoking thisform.classname.closeport().
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>I don't know if this is a good way to do it -- but it's been working for us for 3 or 4 months!