>>>>>>Secondly, my FoxTools.fll date 1996. Is there a more recent version?
>>>>>
>>>>>The one I have in the VFP root folder is dates 2004.
>>>>>
>>>>>>Thirdly, is there a help file for FoxTools.fll that would show me the syntax of using RGBCOMP()?
>>>>>
>>>>>As Sergey said, George Tasker created a great help file.
>>>>>
>>>>>Tamar
>>>>
>>>>I just found the FoxTools.fll with the 2004 date stamp in the VFP 9 folder too. I must have used some old copy from VFP 5 or VFP 6. I will replace the old version with the new one. From what I remember I only use one procedure from the FoxTools.fll.
>>>
>>>A lot of the most useful stuff in FoxTools got added to the core language over the years. I think RGBComp() is the only thing left that I use except in very unusual cases.
>>>
>>>Tamar
>>
>>I will look through the FoxTools help to see what can be used in my application.
>
>But as you do, remember that ToolHelp hasn't been updated in a long time and, as I say, a lot of stuff in FoxTools (like all the functions for parsing file names and paths) have been added to VFP.
>
>Tamar
From checking my code, the only place where the FoxTools.fll is used is in the function FirstInstance() developed by Gary Foster in 1998. I will try to figure out if I can do the FirstInstance() without using FoxTools.fll.
Thank you.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham