>>>>Create a new menu "Compile active project external"
>>>>Determine Activeproject, close the project, call the external VFP, and reopen project afterwards.
>>>>;)
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>>>Ahem..., "Build...". :)
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>>>Will try something like this in a ProjectHook class when possible, and come back with whatever findings I get.
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>>I think you will become problems from a project hook. You would need to kill a object from itself and rebuild from the same code. This might not work.
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>Just to keep the brainstorming mood on: I think the .Close() method of ProjectHook destroys itself and releases the project. Never tried it, though. Nevertheless, it must pass control to a different instantiated object for the reopening.
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>>BTW, to widen my last message:
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>>The code in the menu might create the prg mentioned earlier on the fly (e.g. insert the project in the code). Then you got something generic.
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>What I've tried so far in a ProjectHook subclass creates the prg and the fpw, also. But stumbles in the exclusivity requirement of the builder.

I think the tricky thing is the close - open from inside the instance. All I can think of:

create an timer bound to _screen and let this timer do the work