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Another stupid pet trick (GetFile())
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12/03/2022 12:04:51
 
 
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11/03/2022 07:56:29
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01683793
Message ID:
01683839
Views:
28
>>>>>Close Databases
>>>>>Next I issue:
>>>>>myFIle = GETFILE('XLS', 'SomeFile:', 'Foo')
>>>>>Then i click the "navigate up" button.
>>>>>Immediately image # 2 appears.
>>>>
>>>>Are there any timers in your application?
>>>>
>>>>Tamar
>>> Oh I could kiss you!
>>>That's what it was!
>>
>>Yeah, timers are great, but they can cause all kinds of trouble. You may need to temporarily turn the timer off before popping up the dialog.
>
>The trouble with them is that they keep working even when you forget that they do.
>
>In this case my guess is that it was the „Close Databases“ that did it - the timer obviously needs some alias which was supposed to be available, but now isn't. Now if the timer code ran in its own datasession, we probably wouldn't have this thread.

Thanks Dragan,
spot on!
Barry Taft
i am only worried in the short term. once there is a problem, the solution usually presents itself.
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