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Understanding VFP internals
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20/11/2001 16:23:57
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00584014
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>I know it is currently an app. I thought you were making your statement as an argument against running an exe (using the run command, or through the API) as Mark has suggested.

I probably missed API part. Are you referring to Ed's APP_APIRUN class?

>I was simply showing that hurdle can be overcome... :)

I probably need to convince to switch to exe for this particular application. Then lots of tables, codes, etc. will be need to change too, so it's not that simple anyway...

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>>>>Here is the problem: for most operations we need to use user's configuration. Only for this particular application I need to change temp dir to something else.
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>>>Then use the current configuration file as the basis for the new one...filetostr(), add necessary lines, and strtofile() to another config file.
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>>>You can specify what file to use when you start the .exe.
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>>Right, except we're not running exes here. We're running .app from the main application. E.g. my application is called DataDict.app and it's called from the main JobControl's application menu... Of course, we may consider to change it to exe and change menu call... I need to discuss it with everyone be4 doing it...
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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