>>To complement the answers that were given to you, you might do the following tests. First run the application. From the menu, call the command window and:
>>xx = CREATEOBJECT("Stats") && you won't see anything on you monitor if iit's OK. If it's not, you'll see some sort of error
>>if the object got instantiated, release it: xx.RELEASE()
>>
> That'd be great, but "Command" under Utilities is greyed out. Is there some other way of opening the command window?

First select "Suspend" from the "Utilities" menu pad. This will automatically bring up the VFP Command Window.

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