>>>I've renamed the config file to config.fpw, and put a _STARTUP = "myfile.prg" statement in it.
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>>Change that to
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>>_STARTUP=myfile
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>>and make sure that you have an FXP file, not just the PRG file.
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>No joy.
>I used COMPILE to create an .FXP file from my .PRG.
>Via filemon, I see my app looking for several .FXP files, including REPORTBUILDER, REPORTPREVIEW, REPORTOUTPUT, GETXPR, and GENPD, but not mine.
>I assume my app's project does not need to know anything about this program, right?
>I do have it in the project but did not include it in the .exe.
>I'm back to testing with no internal config.fpw, just an external one invoked using the -c command line parameter.
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>I tried setting the title text and several other things that might show that my config statements are being executed but haven't seen anything that changes - what's a good one to use for this?
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>I have seen a couple of things in the documentation about cases where VFP will ignore statements in a config file but as far as I can tell.
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>I'm stumped -
Are you trying to get "COMMAND" or "_STARTUP" to work while firing off an EXE you built with VFP? I think the "COMMAND" and "_STARTUP" are only used when starting VFP IDE up. I think exe's you build and don't use those commands in the config file.
Charles
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