>>hey anyone know how to associate a PRG with VFP to EDIT rather than run? I have tried with no success to look for command line params and I changed the dde message to edit... But, alas, still no go at this station.
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>>AdvThanksance
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>Hi Joe, long time no see you ;
>At least in 5.0, you go to the menu "Tools", then select "options"
>and click on the tab "project", on "Project double-click action"
>select "Modify select file", that will do it.
>

This has nothing to do with how VFP handles editing - he's trying to make the File Association in the registry edit the .PRG rather than run it when the .PRG is clicked in Explorer. This requires changing a registry key; by default, this causes VFP to start and sends it a message via DDE to run the program.

It's easy enough to start a different program as an editor, or to start a separate VFP session than the one that might be running and have the new VFP session start a .PRG that accepts a command line parameter for the file name; it could then DO a MODI COMM (FileNameParm) NOWAIT to start the editor.

It would be better to use DDE;' unfortunately, I don't know the dde operation or context required in the registry to do this. What I actually do if I want an edit action that starts a fresh VFP and edits the .PRG is have a small program in my VFP directory called MODICOMM.PRG that reads like:

lparameters cFileToOpen
CLEAR
MODI COMM (cFileToOpen) NOWAIT
CANCEL

and an accompanying edit key in my registry that runs the command:

"C:\Program Files\DevStudio\VFP\VFP.EXE" "%1"

>P.S. Don't forget to click on "Set as Default".
>Good luck.