My apologies, Martin: when your name was mentioned I thought you were one of the VFPSkin guys. I DID send them 3 emails - with no response.

My first problem was a "Property TAG is not found." error from vfpskinmaster.skincontainer. I sent them the details on that (both Tag and Comment have high-bit gibberish in their contents). But, that bug has now gone away. Yet I get a VFP crash whenever I try to run a sample VCX form (Fatal error: Exception code=C0000005, etc.).

To try to figure out where the problem is, I "SET STEP ON" in my form's Load() method. Executing the next line (a trivial variable assignment) results in the same crash.

I've seen this kind of problem before when object property assignments are faulty but never on a trivial line after "SET STEP ON". Yet, I'm unable to resolve these problems even after twice starting again from scratch making sure things are simple. (Of course, without the $2500 source code, this is much tougher.)

Looking thru Skins 2.0 source, however, I noticed that there's a VFP7 property in the Init():
IF THIS.vfp7=.F.
SET LIBRARY TO "FoxTools.Fll" ADDITIVE
lnHwnd = _WhToHwnd( _WFindTitl(THIS.PARENT.CAPTION) )
THIS.formhwnd=lnHwnd
ELSE
THIS.Formhwnd=THIS.PARENT.HWND
ENDIF

This is, of course, understandable as Skins 2 was written when VFP6 was in use. However, I'm using VFP 8 (which also has a Parent.Hwnd property. Could this be causing the problem? Have they had other VFP8 users with these odd problems? Are there special problems using VCX forms?

The bottom line is: I can't get anything more than a trivial SCX to work and so, can't use this great looking product.

Thanks for any help you can give,
Ken