>>>>I noticed that when I change a header file the change is not noticed
>>>>by vfp5 unless I save a form. I suppose vfp thinks it needs to
>>>>recompile then. Is there some setting that I can make vfp
>>>>recompile every time I run my project?
>>>
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>>>Header files, as you've noticed, are only read at compile time. You could create a project hook that recompiles everything whenever you save a header file.
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>>I'm not sure project hooks existed in vfp5; he can still compile form from the command window - even though it didn't have this syntax either, but it could compile as a class, i.e.
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>>compile classlib myform.scx
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>VFP 5 had a COMPILE FORM command, too. Is there a reason you didn't specify that, or does COMPILE CLASSLIB treat an .SCX differently?

I confused the versions. Compile Form didn't exist in 3.0, right? You know, after ten versions of Fox, it's sort of hard to keep track of those things. At some point you just keep some sort of 'relative' tag on things, like "this one didn't exist until... well, later".