>We need to pass a drive letter to our VFP .exe - this will allow us to create a shortcut on a client's system. He insists that he doesn't want the user to have to enter the drive letter of a cd tower. I just can't find how to pass the parameter.
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You need a PARAMETERS or LPARAMETERS statement in the main program module as the first executable statement in the module; if you want to be able to pass more than 1 parameter, you'll need more than one entry. For example:
* MAIN.PRG
LPARAMETERS uParm1, uParm2, uParm3, uParm4, uParm5
Would allow for 0 to 3 values to be passed in on the command line; use PCOUNT() to determine how many were actually passed in. If the program create is MyApp.EXE, yyou could invoke it with "I" as a value by having the command line:
C:\MyDir\MyApp.EXE IAll values passed on the command line will be recevied as a character value; if you need to pass in a character string that includes characters that are seens as delimiters (like spaces), encapsulate the string in
"s:
C:\MyDir\MyApp.EXE "Mary had a little lamb"would pass
Mary had a little lamb as uParm1, with all others containing a logical .F. If instead, you started it with:
C:\MyDir\MyApp.EXE Mary had a little lambuParm1 would contain
Mary, uParm2 would contain
had, etc.
Using LPARAMETERS scopes the parameters as local to MAIN; a PARAMETERS statement scopes the parameters as PRIVATE.
>We would like to pass "I", for instance...
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>We tried using
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>I
>-I
>-"I"
>/I (this one worked, but it also sent the /
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>I give up... :)
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>Steve McMahon
>ZDI
>San Diego