Vin,
Sounds perfect. Didn't know about it. will give it a try now.
Thanks,
>Terry --
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>Would sys(2335) help? Basically, sys(2335) allows you to bypass any incidences of what would-have-been modal windows such as messageboxes. Instead, these are turned into run-time errors, which you can trap.
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>sys(2335,0) manes "don't show the modal dialogues," and sys(2335,1) means show them (the default).
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>Hope this helps.
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>>Nancy,
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>>Thanks for responding. That would be a great idea if I was just concerned with the messagebox of VFP. Dialogs are coming up due to permission problems with SQL etc, so different kinds of dialogs.
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>>Have you heard about anything that interrupts a specified object's process in VFP and then lets you return to the creator of the object?
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>>>>Given that I have an object A and have called a method of it that creates an instance of an object B and calls a method of it, how can I return from an inadvertent dialog that pops up forever with no human intervention?
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>>>Not sure I follow, but I suggest using the Timeout parameter in the messagebox() function. New to VFP 7.0
