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Why doesn't SCREEN=OFF work?
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00066133
Message ID:
00067347
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>>I use Visual FoxPro V5. I want to remove the FoxPro screen that flashes briefly as my exe loads.
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>>I put SCREEN=OFF and TITLE=My App in the CONFIG.FPW file in the directory where the EXE executes. I _screen.Visible = .F. until my form loads,then I put _screen.Visible = .T.
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>>I have tried every variation of this, but that wretched Visual FoxPro screen still flashes up before my application starts.
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>>What am I doing wrong? I have read every message over the past 6 months on the Thread, and hit Microsoft's site, but no answer is forthcoming.
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>It doesn't appear that you are doing anything wrong. Check a few things:
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>1. Is the CONFIG.FPW INCLUDEd in the project?
>2. If not, is the CONFIG.FPW in the directory that the project expects to find it?
>3. Is the TITLE coming up right? If not, you know you're not using the CONFIG.FPW
>
>HTH


Thank you Colin and Cetin,

All the things which you suggested, I was doing. The problem turned out to be that I had a CONFIG.FPW included in my project under text files, and this was thwarting my efforts to remove the Visual FoxPro Splash screen. I have to have a separate CONFIG.FPW so that my win32api calls work to detect the app already running.

Now that I have removed this CONFIG.FPW file, it all works fine!!

Rex from Down Under.
Rex Toomey
ISD Port Macquarie NSW
Australia

'Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.'
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