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How to load command window from my _command.prg?
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21/05/2005 16:20:51
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01016487
Message ID:
01016525
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59
>>I have a separate foxuser for each project, which helps me a lot by keeping MRU lists separate for each one of them. When I quit VFP, the _command.prg is saved to the directory where current foxuser is. However, since I'm using the "Task Pane Manager - Environment Manager" to navigate between projects, VFP always reads the home()+"_command.prg" into the command window, so whatever I had in the local _command.prg is pretty much lost. I know I could modi comm _command and see what I did last time, but I wish there was something I could do in the Environment Manager to make it happen automatically.
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>>So, does anyone know how to load text into command window without actually executing it?
>
>Well, I did something similar to this, each time we start VFP, I save a copy of _command in a backup folder (I keep in there 3 months (am I paranoid?) worth of _commands with a name format like _Command_UserName_Date), and I also add some customizable text to it, so when Foxpro starts, in the command window we have a text that looks like:
>
>
>******************************************************
>* Session started on (date) or (datetime)            *
>******************************************************
>
What's different in my situation is that I have about a dozen _command.prg files in various directories, one per project, and accordingly, the same number of foxuser tables.

Actually, what I could do (you just gave me the idea, somehow), is to launch a new version of VFP in the given folder, and then shut it down. And I could have a standardized script (at home(), probably) which would force the Environment manager to read the local settings for that location.

IOW... I think it's not worth the trouble. Feasible, probably, but just don't feel like I'll be having time for that, ever.

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