>>>What settings do I need so that when an error occurs in a prog, the prog listing pops up with the offending(?) line highlighted.
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>>>I saw it somewhere and think it had SET TALK ON but it obviously needs somethin else.
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>>>TIA, Pete
>>>waiting for 7
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>>When error happend choose Suspend and than ACTIVATE WINDOW trace.
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>Thanks Sergey,
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> This prog is running in a project and the previous window sets all kinds of vars based on selections in that window. I can't run the program by itself and the main menu bar isn't available when an error occurs. All I can do is CANCEL or IGNORE.
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>Pete

Than you need an error handling routine. Take a look at 'Error Handling in Visual FoxPro' paper at http://www.stonefield.com/techpap.html