First of all I want to thank the people behind this site initiative. It
really is fantastic. If there were prices in this category there should be
one given to this.
Second thanks to all the people who sent their help mails.

This was how I formulated the problem I had with an empty project still
asking for themes to find:

Dear Listers,

The problem I face is the following.

I have made an arcview (AV 3.2) project with all kinds of scripts and
dialogs.

I tested it with some shape files and tables. OK

I then removed all the shape files, tables, layouts and charts to make it an
'empty' project which can be used by anyone to load his own data into.

The supposed to be empty project, however, still asks for a shapefile and a
dbf file when started????

I tried everything I know to find the mentioned files in the project (to
remove them) but can not find them!!!

Does anybody have a suggestion?

I also tried to remove the references in the .apr file with a texteditor.
This only leads to segmentation violations.

If anybody can help?

Sum will be made

In fact I had the problem solved the same day. What I noticed was that in
the .apr file (in a texteditor) the wanted theme and dbf file were
referenced to inside the 'odb lines' of a particular dialog.

What I did was removing the dialog from the project and importing it again.
And indeed the problem was solved!

The next day did reach me some twenty suggestions with solutions along this
same line. The most useful was the one of Dirk Voets who suggested to empty
the listboxes and comboboxes with the command theListBox.Empty (or
theCombobox.Empty). With this information I created the script:

allDocs = av.getproject.getDocs

for each adoc in allDocs
  if (aDoc.Is(DialogEditor)) then
    aDialog = aDoc.getDialog
    aControlPan = aDialog.getControlpanel
    ListBoxes = aControlPan.FindByClass(listbox)
    ComboBoxes = aControlPan.FindByClass(combobox)
    TextLines = aControlPan.FindByClass(textline)'to be sure
    for each aBox in Listboxes
      aBox.Empty
    end
    for each aBox in ComboBoxes
      aBox.Empty
    end
    for each aBox in Textlines
      aBox.Empty
    end
  end
end

After this all the dialogs will be liberated of any referenced files.
Thank you all again.
And Yes, I'm Dutch.

Paul Janssen
Geo-Informatics
FAO Regional Office / Project FAO GCP/RLA/126/JPN
Dag. Hammarskjöld 3241, Vitacura
Post-Box 10095
Santiago, Chile
Phone: (+)56-2-3372140
e-mail: paul.janssen@fao.org
www.rlc.fao.org/proyecto/gcp/rla/126/jpn