I use ShellExecute(), perhaps u should consider it...

HTH, E.

>________________________________

> From: Kent Belan <kbelan@mchsi.com>

>To: 'ProFox Email List' <profox@leafe.com>

>Sent: Friday, December 2, 2011 7:37 PM

>Subject: RUN an EXE

>

>Hello,

>

>Hope you don't mind if I have another question for today.

>

>I have an application that one of the menu options starts a new VFP9

>application.

>

>So in the click event, the code looks like:

>RUN /N NEWAPP.EXE

>

>This works fine except the new NEWAPP.EXE starts up behind the existing

>application.

>

>I tried to remove the /N from the run command, and it does work better, but

>leaves a command window hanging ...

>

>How can I get NEWAPP.EXE to open as the active application ?

>

>Thanks,

>Kent

>

>

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