>Hi Peter.
>
>>I'd like to store a developer preference somewhere. Several options come to mind:
>>
>>1) In a memfile
>>2) In Foxuser.dbf
>>3) In the Windows Registry
>>
>>The first one is not my first choice in this case. The second one is the simplest and safest, I guess. But the documentation says: Modifying the READONLY field and/or deleting records from the resource file are the only actions you should perform on the FOXUSER file..
>
>Check out FoxResource.PRG in HOME() + "Tools\XSource\VFPSource\Toolbox". It contains a class for saving and loading settings from FOXUSER or any other resource file.

Doug,

Thanks for the reference. I regard it as an 'approval' afterall (from the foxteam) that the resource table can be freely used as long as that certain administrative principles are applied with care.

However, there is one thing that strikes me. Reading the code in the PRG (and in other PRGs in that same folder) reveals a different formula for the CKVAL calculation. In the code the formula is VAL(SYS(2007,DATA)). However, Calvin Hsia uses VAL(SYS(2007,SUBSTR(DATA,3))) and that is indeed the formula that creates the CKVAL value I found (in vfp7).