>We are touch screen developers for the POS industry. Up to now we have written out own keyboard for our applications. In win2000 and windows XP I see microsoft have their own exe which overlays an onscreen keyboard. I know I can put this exe in the startup folders, but I was wondering if anyone knows how to activate / de-activate this program from within vfp
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>Many thanks
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>Brian O Donovan

run /n osk.exe

You should be able to find and close it with FindWindow, SendMessage() API
Cetin