Hi James,


>This seems like a top-notch tip. A few clarifying questions from the gallery, if I may:

>1. When you replace all method fields of both classes and forms, do you replace only the records that are not empty, i.e., REPLACE ALL METHOD WITH '*' FOR !EMPTY(METHOD) ?

Yes indeed, the for clause might be handy (though not neccesary), to avoid unneccesary replacements.

>2. Do you then leave the DEBUG INFO checkbox checked in the Project Info/Project option?

Yes, indeed I leave it checked on. Else it will not build the '*' into the exe which makes the whole idea to work.

>3. Is the "Build" option of the Project Manager the same as "BUILD EXE myExe From MyPrject", so long as the Rebuild Project and Rebuild All Files options are unchecked ? (Sorry for this last one, I've just never used "Build" from the command window before...

As far as I can tell it is exactly the same.

>Thank you for sharing your ideas.

Thanks for your clarifying questions. I realize that this tip comes with less practual stuff to inmediatly implement it as I don't have figured out yet how to implement this in a convinient way and automated way. Maybe someone else has an idea and willing to implement it.

I'm beginning to realize that this mechanism would be fairly easy to implement by the VFP team, to allow us to build compact executable without losing the capability to track linenumbers. I'll submit this as a VFP7 whish.

Walter,


Walter,