Steve,

And I don't disagree with you. Just trying to help Marc understand where everyone was coming from as he made it very clear that no one understood his problem.

Renoir

>Hi Renoir,
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>But some of us think it should be an error. What is the user supposed to do? Guess what file to open?
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>If this dialog pops up, it is because there is a bug in my code. I would rather it go through the same route as any other error that may occur--through the error handler.
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>Those are just my thoughts on the matter :)
>
>
>>Marc,
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>>I think most everyone understood you. They were just trying to help you work around it. A Foxpro error message looks very different than the open dialog box and I think everyone was wondering why you were trying to trap it as it was somewhat obviously not an error.
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>>Renoir
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>>>> VFP doesn't consider it to be an error.
>>>At last, someone understand me! Thank you.