>>We have a few FoxPro/DOS apps running that share data with our VFP apps. The VFP apps serve as a SQL front end. All of our DBFs have to be readable by the DOS apps, and the DOS apps can't communicate with SQL. We're not going to be rewriting the DOS apps in VFP anytime soon.
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>>Is there any benefit in compiling our DOS apps in VFP? Is there a way to do that will maintain the proper look of the screens (non proportional font)? I played with this a few years ago a little bit with VFP 5 but not since.
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>>Has anyone done this? Is it worth the effort?
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>I looked at this at some point. I couldn't get the forms to look nice - they looked like even crappier versions of the DOS version, regardless of how I messed with the fonts and colors, environment settings, etc. The main benefit I was hoping for was to make it easier to edit the old code from within VFP - editing anything from FoxPro DOS is painful. I also wanted to merge down projects into a single project so you could have a simpler build process, and minimize issues w/mismatched libraries/classes (to eliminate bugs that crept in because of some change 4 months ago that you don't see until you rebuild the project today and BAM! it suddenly fails with some weird error about something you know you didn't touch), but I lost that argument. Hundreds of project files sucked.


Yep, it sure does. Thanks Paul