Terry,

I used whatever sort of quotes were from the original post I didn't notice if they were " or not.

The important thing is that in VFP you need the ( ) around the parameters to the .Do method call.

You might need to AddObject() the MapInfo to the form instead of CreateObject()ing it. I'm not exactly sure what it's trying to do to become visible especially since it's taking that hWND on two of those calls.

>Jeez you were quick! I hadn't even come out of the UT before your reply! Apart from the double single-quotes (apostophes), which I replaced for quotation marks, it worked!
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>Well at least up to a fashion; there were no errors, a form appeared, but there was no map on it, just a plain form, and no menu or whatever. I'll have to look more closely now at the code and commands. I don't know what I WAS supposed to see.
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>Well, if I'm not yet properly "off the ground", at least I've done the 12 yards or so of the "Kittyhawk" {g}.
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>If you have any more helpful suggestions or whatever then I am forever your humble servant.