>Hi -
>
>I came across a problem when I use my form wizard to create forms for my application. I am getting an error message after after I complete the form wizard prompts and save the form. Error #111 pops up on the screen.
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>Error #111 says "you attempted to write a file that was created or accessed for read only purposes"
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>So, I went to may handy dandy FoxPro book and starting reading about read only files.
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>My question is this:
>How should I set up my application so this isn't a problem, especially in the design phase? How do I tell FoxPro to make a program or file read only?
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>Thanks for any comments/help in advance

You can change the File Attributes of a file programmatically within a VFP application by calling a Win32 API function named (strangely enough) SetFileAttributes(). There's a downloadable program here on UT that provides access to the necessary API; the code is pretty simple:

DECLARE INTEGER SetFileAttributes IN Kernel32 ;
	STRING cFileNameToAlter, ;
	INTEGER nAttributeMask
*       
*       attribute bit values are as follows;  this is a partial list.
*       You can set multiple attributes by adding the numbers together
*       for the attributes you want set, ie Read-only and hidden
*       would be 1 + 2 (3 unless you work in base 2, then it's 11)
*
*       You must explicitly set the attributes you want to have enabled.
*       If you have a file that's currently read-only, but now want it
*       to be read-only and hidden, you pass 3 for the second parameter,
*       but if you want it to be hidden but read-write you'd pass a 2,
*       clearing the 1 bit
*
*	R = Read-only   	1
*	H = Hidden		2
*	S = System		4
*	A = Archive		32 
*
*       Other attribute values can be found in the MSDN docs

nAttribs = 1  && read-only, to clear, use 0

IF SetFileAttributes(FULLPATH(cFileName), nAttribs) = 1
   * it worked
ELSE
   * it failed
ENDIF