I use project hooks all over the place. Make my life a heck of a lot easier. Mostly stuff when the project opens to automatically run a project specific design time config prg, and to log activity to a audit table.

Also have stuff in BeforeBuild.


>Steve,
>
>My reply may inspire a couple of flames, but here goes. I have found the project hooks to be all but useless, and can generally do what they offer by an easier route.
>
>Consider this little PRG you could write (and never get involved with hooks):
>
>

>PROCEDURE BuildAProject
>LPARAM lcAPP
>LOCAL MyReport
>
>USE (lcAPP) ALIAS TheProject
>SCAN FOR TYPE = "R"
>  *
>  *  Need to strip off a control character
>  *  at the end of the name
>  *
>  MyReport = LEFT(TheProject.Name,LEN(TheProject.Name)-1)
>
>  SELE 0
>  USE (MyReport) ALIAS TheReport
>  REPLACE expr  WITH "",;
>          tag   WITH "",;
>          tag2  WITH ""
>  USE
>
>ENDSCAN
>
>USE IN TheProject
>BUILD EXE &lcApp FROM &lcAPP RECOMPILE
>=Messagebox("I'm Finished!")
>

>
>Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>>I am reading through the Sep98 issue of Foxtalk and the Oct99 issue of Fox Advisor about ProjectHooks. I want to use one to keep the printer-specific info out of my reports (in the BeforeBuild event).
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>>But I'm too thick to figure out how to add a project hook to my project (now 98% done). Can anyone give me the basics of adding a ProjectHook?