>>Maybe they were too busy testing their own applications & didn't have time to spend doing free testing for somebody else.
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>Surely even their applications would have had forms with editboxes? Unless of course the beta version was ok, and the bug crept in later?

What I meant was they were testing their apps. written in VFP6 (with the latest SP) not VFP7 Beta.

>Perhaps a pre-release checklist needs to be created for the next version, and one of the steps needs to be: create an application.exe and test it.

It's one of the things that you really wouldn't have to explicitly specify, given the nature of the product. But it is often the most obvious steps that get overlooked.

These 2 sites maybe of some interest to others following this thread, the first has some very interesting links.

http://www.robelle.com/library/papers/better/
http://www.robelle.com/library/papers/popquiz/