>I have an app that I have been using for a couple of years. The initial screen is nothing but a command group with a dozen buttons to perform specific tasks. I added a couple more buttons to that screen, and now the app will not display.
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>When I start it, there is no apparent processing. The screen does not display, and there is nothing on the start bar. When I go to task manager, there is no entry under applications tab. However, when I click the process tab, there is a process running.
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>If I try to rebuild the exe file, it cannot update the exe file because file access is denied. If I kill the process, then I can build.
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>The app runs fine if I start FoxPro development package and then run the application, even if I do the .exe file.
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>Any thoughts appreciated.
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>Alan

Alan,
Probably form's visible is set to .f.
Try having a :
this.show
in form.init.
Also it might be a top level form trying to display a dialog like a select a file for a nonlocatable file.
Check _screen=.f. in code and a config.fpw file with screen=off too.
Cetin