>Hi,
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>I've been asked to write a VFP program which will accept some parameters and return a value to the calling program.
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>The calling program will be written in VBScript.
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>Getting my VFP exe to accept the parameters is fine, but I can't see how to return the value [which will be a simple character string].
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>For instance, the complete main program in my project looks like this:
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>parameters lctablename
>wait window lctablename
>return lctablename
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>If I run this in VFP, the wait window displays ok, but I get a syntax error on the return.
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>This is in VFP 6.0 with SP3. Anyone got any ideas ? Also, are there any problems with calling a VFP exe with parameters from VBScript.
>

Create a VFP COM server, and instance the server from VBScript - you can make method calls and use standard returns and parameter passing. You can't 'return' a value (other than an error level code) on program termination, and that's limited to integer values. THe COM server handles this, by publishing an interface that the VBScript can address.