>>It works OK, but I want it to not even exist in the exe at runtime. Only at design time.
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>LOL!
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>So you want MAGIC? :-)
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>There's no way to have 'dynamic' conditional code inside of VFP (or any other language I know of) since the code is
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>I don't understand why you wouldn't want the plain IF logic since that clearly works. The code in question would never be executed - why would you care if it's there.
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>The alternative is to store the code you're trying to execute externally and run it only when your < debugCondition > is valid. But you still end up with a small block of code that is conditional.

Asking for magic is one way to get people to think outside the box. You did that exactly by saying have the code execute externally - only at dev time and not in the exe at all.

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>Or simply:
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>TRY 
>   DO DebugOnlyFile.fxp
>CATCH
>ENDTRY
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>If the file is there it works, otherwise it doesn't.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>>>Why not just pure IF?
>>>>
>>>>IF _vfp.startmode=0
>>>> ...
>>>>ENDIF
>>>>
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>>>Borislav is right, just use the IF. I've already used this, and works ok.
>>>
>>>Regards.-
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