You have made me a very happy camper!!!!!! I thought I heard this was one of the breakthroughs with 9.0, and looked all over the "New Features" list and couldn't find it.

Bob

>VFP9 has new SET TABLEPROMPT OFF command that turns off such dialogs. An appropriate error is generate by VFP instead.
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>>Its inevitable. You test, test, test, and still once in a while your program attempts to use a table that's not open (and you get that stupid Open Dialog Box that doesn't tell you what table it is looking for).
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>>But of course this never happens while your writing code at the office, Noooooo....it happens in a production version out at your client's office.
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>>But when it happens, you have no clear idea what table it wants it just displays that stupid Open Dialog and you have no choice but to guess or crash out.
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>>I just reviewed the help file for SYS(2335) but it doesn't look like the answer, because it eliminates all modal processes...(Did I misunderstand?) so what can we do to get rid of this stupid thing?
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