I had one here just last week, Renoir...

I could only exit the VIEW Designer by quitting VFP. The view being viewed had been hand-rolled and the starting error message with subsequent large window to show the raw SQL were all I had needed to see, so I clikced the x-box on the SQL window. System asked if I wanted it to rebuild the view and since I didn't want it touched I clicked No. Back to the first message, essentially in a loop.

After asking here came the reply 'I tried what you say and got out just fine by exiting the view designer'.
Once told that I retraced my steps but this time I moved the SQL window and, lo and behold, there was the view designer window. X-clicked and out I went, clean as a whistle.

I'm thinking that's competition for the award!

cheers


>Ok, are you ready for this? I am about to award the inaugural Vandalet Stupid User Award (VSUA). As it implies to win this you really gotta be about as dumb as a box of hammers...at least momentarily...
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>The PC that I was having so much trouble with XP Professional Activation last week was in another state (not metaphysically, but literally) and so I was not able to physically work on it. The error my girlfriend was getting was "Cannot connect to Windows." I put much effort into determining that it was due to the Activation in combination with an invalid version of XP Professional. I spent much time complaining here, bashing MS customer support and then sending a newly purchased copy of the software next-day air to my girlfriend. All this is pretty much moot because when she by chance plugged the phone line into the PC it connected automatically to MS, activated XP Professional and loaded up no problem as if nothing had ever happened.
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>I get the VSUA for not making the difficult mental correlation between an unplugged phone line and the "cannot connect" error! Good news is that she now has a valid copy of the OS...
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>There are plenty of stories out there of idiot things done by "someone else" but anyone want to admit to any of their own? I really can't (better not) be the only one!
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>Renoir