>Hi Alex,
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>Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the clarification regarding these 2 apps not being COM servers. I was afraid that would be the case.
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>Several people suggested an editbox on a form or a modify file. I guess I'm to blame for not providing more details. I'll try to be brief...
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>My VFP app has to run in the left half of the screen. The right half is used by an imaging application. My main form fills the VFP half of the screen. I didn't want a floating window obscuring it. Yet, the user will need to read the text and perform changes to the form based on it. Hence my desire to have a window external to the VFP app (e.g. Notepad, Wordpad).

You can still provide a form with an editbox, and set that form as .desktop=.t.; it will look as external, and have a separate icon on the taskbar, and yet you'll be able to control it.