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Conversion from FPW to VFP9
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 7
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Thread ID:
01556404
Message ID:
01556424
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That's what I was thinking. Going from FPW 2.6 to VFP 9 isn't really an upgrade - it's a rewrite....and heck if you're going to have to do a whole re-write anyway might as well use something that will be supported a little longer than VFP 9 is going to be.

>I think that you are looking for a lot of trouble and wasted time trying to migrate a FPW 2.6 to VFP 9. I've succeeded once in making a FPW 2.6 application run in a VFP 3 environment and the result was so ugly (in screen and in code) that I killed the idea of migration.
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>My advise is forget it. Rewrite the whole thing. If you choose the path to a complete rewrite, I wouldn't go with VFP 9, unless you plan a second rewriting in a couple of years.
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>>I have a large legacy application written in FPW 2.6 we are trying to migrate it to the VFP9 environment.
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>>We have do decided to do use a hybrid conversion strategy. Run the old code (from the SPRs generated by FPW) and add new functionality using the VFP.
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>>The problem is that the FPW foundation READ required by the FPW code is not allowing the VFP screens to fire their events – essentially the Read Events is being ignored.
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>>The program is structured something like this:
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>>a) Main program calls the menu (main.mpr) followed by a READ VALID()
>>b) From the menu – call the SPRs as required – they run – no problem
>>c) From the menu - DO FORM VFP_FORM - problem.
>> Whenever I click on the screen, the program immediately jumps to the foundation Read’s valid function
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>>I have tried to :
>>a) issue a READ EVENTS immediately after the DO FORM command and it is ignored.
>>b) Issue a READ EVENTS before the foundation Read – the VFP code works but the SPR code that requires the foundation read fails.
>>c)There is no difference between modal screens and non-modal screens.
>>
>>Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
ICQ 10556 (ya), 254117
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