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Who uses Chen's product?
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From
06/08/2019 04:30:27
Metin Emre
Ozcom Bilgisayar Ltd.
Istanbul, Turkey
 
 
To
22/07/2019 05:09:32
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Third party products
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01663044
Message ID:
01669912
Views:
140
>>>>Hi Dragan,
>>>>
>>>>Please refer to the file readme.txt:
>>>
>>>Read most of it, downloaded everything and now just waiting for a quiet evening to try again...
>>
>>And? Did you succeed?
>
>(Aaaargh UT has gone 404 again when I clicked Send... so, again:)
>
>The trick was to do a clean install of VFP, because the SP2 update that Chen provides doesn't overwrite the dlls, so in my previous attempts it would always keep the old (wrong) version and then Chen's installer would refuse to proceed. On a clean install it just worked.
>
>Our main app uses lots of ActiveXes (shouldn't that be activices?), many of them from that old batch from 1998. Finding 64-bit versions of them is so not worth the time to be near impossible. Anyway, the team chief decided against using 32-bit version too, simply because it's now equally impossible to deploy the runtimes to about thousand workstations and to instruct about a hundred IT morons how to do that.
>
>But I'm quite happy to use the 64-bit version for my pet projects. It's so much faster and stable.

I think how fast 64 bit version doesn't matter, VFP 9 fast enough with 32 bit box. Matter is if your application can run at web -royalty free- ? Alaska promised this years ago and at 2019 there's no Polarfox 3.0 still yet.
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