>Brenda,

>Did you ever find the solution to this problem and/or check the SET("UDFPARMS")? Someone else reported the same problem in the newsgroups.
df - Microsoft MVP, MCP df FoxPro website last update 09-Jan-99

No I did not directly find the answer, and my exactly recollection is gone. But there were severaly factors involved. One of the first peices of code in the converter is a CASE statement.


DO CASE
CASE PARAMETERS() = 0
*- new feature for selectively converting 3.0 SCX and VCX files
m.pFileType = C_SCREENTYPEPARM
m.pFileName = ""
m.pVersion = C_30VERS
CASE PARAMETERS() == 3 AND PROGRAM(0) = "CONVERT"
*- okay -- classic mode of calling convert.app
CASE TYPE("pProgCall") == 'L' AND pProgCall
*- is being called from another program -- need to trap index into PROGRAM()
LOCAL i
FOR i = 1 TO 128
IF PROGRAM() == PROGRAM(i)
giCallingProg = MAX(1,i - 1)
EXIT
ENDIF
NEXT
*- note: if this fails (i.e., can;t locate current program in the PROGRAM()
*- array, giCallingProg will remain at 0 (MASTER)
OTHERWISE
*- called with wrong parameters
=MESSAGEBOX(E_BADCALL_LOC)
RETURN gReturnVal
ENDCASE

First, when I did a "modi report" from the Command Window it always worked correctly. It was when I did a "modi report" in code. In code, "modi report", did not pass the 4th parameter: pProgCall, a logical; and because it was called from within an object, PROGRAM(0) <> "CONVERT". It executed the otherwise. I tried commenting out the CASE statment, and again doing the code "modi report". I did not get an error (obviously), and it did create the backup .f2t and f2x files, but I never got the gauge (which shows the status of the conversion), and when I "modi report" from the command window it converted it again. So it did not really convert the report.

I ended up creating a 1 time conversion program that directly called the converted from my procs.prg (no objects). I used my custom converter that had the CASE statement commented out (believe I still could not get it correct with the CASE statement). The call was

do 'convvfp.exe' with afrxfiles(nCount,1),"REPORT","FOX",.T.

Brenda