Are you sure you have set up a ´foundation read´. You need to do this (read events). If not the runtime environment will start your program/form and terminate it as well because nothing is waiting to process any envents. The development environment does this for you so everything seems to work just fine.

You can test this as follows: start the VFP development, run the exe from the command window. If it works here than the ´fr´ is not properly set.

HTH,

Ron

>>Hoping someone has good advice on this...
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>>I developed a simple utility app in vfp9 that performs beautifully in dev environment. I packaged it using InstallShield Express (whatever came with vfp8) and installed it on same box. The application starts for a millisecond (all I see is a very brief flash of something, what exactly it is I don't know).
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>>As I said the app works flawlessly in dev.
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>>Thanks
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>>Alan
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>>Some additional ponderings...
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>>1) Why does an app that compiles as a 34k executable become an 8MB setup.exe after InstallShield? I know there are runtimes and other supporting files but jeeze!
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>>2) What can I do to prevent FOXUSER.FPT and FOXUSER.DBF from cluttering my desktop every time I use an app?
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>You can distribute your runtime files seperately if you wish... Check the following link for a description of the requirements:
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>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFP8RuntimeFiles