>Thank you George,
> in fact i would prefer a native fox solution because i wouldnt like to go into registering activexes (the program will run on an Citrix Server). I found a solution :
> set screen=off in an internal config.fpw
> create a top level form with left = -10000
>
>Then every dialog appears on screen, the problem is that i cannot get them centered on the desktop, do you know a way to change thhis behaviour ??
>
>Thank you again

Dimitris,

You're welcome.

No, unfortunately I don't. I prefer the Common Dialogs control because not only does it avoid this problem, but allows me to position the dialog where I want it.

>
>>>I recently discovered that when you set _screen.visible = .f. then various dialogs like getfile() are invisible too and you cannot use them. Is there a workouround for this problem??
>>>
>>>Thank you
>>>
>>Dimitris,
>>
>>Use the Common Dialogs ActiveX control.