I have installed FM7 DEV on my, much used, "shop" PC, running XP Pro , without any problems at all.

But, after installing it on a newer P4 box, which has givien me no trouble at all, whenever I open any fp7 file and go to the graphic table view ( FILE>DEFINE DB) the tables are there, but the words and connection lines will not appear unless I click on the table header.

If I let go, the words disappear!

Also, if I try to draw lines or borders in Layout mode, I cannot see them either. Nor can I seem to set their colors in the color picker box to anything!.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled several time, to no avail.

But, if I reinstall it on the original PC, everything works as it should.

Very strange.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Maybe play with the graphic card settings, turn down hardware accelleration, change color depth, resolution, ... see if you can get it working. Then report it on the FMI website as a problem.

Try 24 bit resolution.

Thank you both for your replies.

After seeing both your handles numerous times in this group, I'm fairly sure that if this problem had been posted before, one of you would have heard of it!

I've tried al the obvious solutions, to no avail.

Furthermore, since this is only happening on the one box, I have chalked it up to some Windows anomaly and am using the other PC without a problem.

I will post it on the FMI site forum and see what develops.

If anyone else has had this problem, though, I'd be interested in hearing about it!