>>I am trying to use ESRI's ActiveX control MapObjects LT 2 to display a ArcView shape file on a screen form. ESRI's web site only has one example for Visual FoxPro - and it is for the full version of MapObjects 2 instead of the MapObjects LT 2.
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>>I have a form with the following in the INIT method:
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>>_VFP.AutoYield = .F.
>>layer = CREATEOBJECT("MapObjectsLT2.MapLayer")
>>layer.file = "c:\program files\esri\mapobjectsLT2\samples\data\northeast\necenter.shp"
>>layer.visible = .F.
>>THISFORM.oleMap.Layers.Add(layer)
>>THISFORM.oleMap.Extent = THISFORM.oleMap.FullExtent
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>>While I don't get any error messages, the form just comes up with a blank white image instead of showing the shape file. I would greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer to get me started in the right direction.
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>>Thanks,
>>David
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>Just set layer.visible back to .T. again and the map should show up OK.

Thanks,
I actually simplied the code to post, and I just realized that I left out the layer.visible = .T. code. I also just realized that I also had a typo on another line which was my real problem.

Once again thanks,
David