>Hello,
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>We are working with reprogramming av Clipper system using Delphi 5 and Apollo to access DBF/FPT/CDX-tables. After learning about using VFP as a COM-server, I found using SQL is very fast and convenient and that it also don't care about our modified index collation.
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>But when I have a SQL statement trying to do select from a nonexisting dbf, VFP will open a dialog asking for selection. If I run this with application.visible=.F. the calling program will hang while the com-program is not displaying anything. Is there a workaround here?

An alternative would be to check for the existence of the file before doing a select. In that way your COM server can keep running without error, if it can adjust.