>>>>>>>>I my application I have a line of code that looks like:
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>>>>>>>>thisform.cFile = getfile('DBF')
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>>>>>>>>On one of my clients machines the line does not seem to be getting executed. Either that or the OS is not poping up the getfile dialog. Anyone else have a problem like this?
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>>>What is the OS on your client's computer? What VFP version/service patch are you using?
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>>>This is exactly how getfile() and putfile() act on NT 3.51 using VFP6.
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>>>David,
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>>It's Win95 and the application was built with VFP6 SP3. I don't know what version of Win95 however.
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>Rip,
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>I suffered through this just a couple weeks ago. It would occur on only two machines. Typically it would call getfile() the first time the button.click was used, then refuse to do it after that - until the machine was rebooted.
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>I finally reinstalled WIN95 and it cleared the problem up. One thing I noticed was that once the problem began, it would occur in selected other applications too - like Excel, but not IE5.
Yes a reboot did fix it. Good to know I'm not the only one.
Rip Ryness
International Falls, MN