Hi Terry,

Your application is looking for .mbx file in the current directory which may or may not be the one where application started from. Try

lcMBXLoc = JUSTPATH(_VFP.ServerName) + "\mPLANMap.mbx"\...

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>I don't suppose many will be able to solve this but here goes...
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>I'm invoking a MapInfo application, via a MapBasic .MBX (compiled and linked) module. Everything works more or less fine from native VFP (7 SP1), via the following lines:
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>lcMBXLoc	= SYS(5)+SYS(2003) + "\mPLANMap.mbx"
>oShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell")
>oShell.Run( ( lcMBXLoc), 1, .T.)
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>As expected, the .MBX is in the same folder as my foxpro .exe. But, for the user version, where my exe is placed in \Program Files\MyAppFolder, and I invoke the exe, it crashes, presumably on the oshell.run, with the error message:
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>OLE Error 0X80070002 The system cannot find the file specified.
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>I thought, "Ah, maybe I have to include the MapInfo.exe in the same folder" (as the MapBasic app and MapInfo are inextricably linked), so copied it there, but no joy.
>As I said, running this from VFP there's no problem. But, when I do it in debug, at the line:
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>oShell.Run( ( lcMBXLoc), 1, .T.)
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>I get a brief glimpse of my MI app, which disappears, then Foxpro hangs up (with the hour-glass) and I can't do anything with the pc. I have to abort VFP with Task Manager - then the damn MapInfo application comes to life. When I exit that, as normal, of course my VFP prog has ceased.