According to the VFP help VFP6RUN doesn't accept parameters for the application it runs. I think you can build your own exe to replace VFP6Run.

* myvfprun.prg
LPARAMETRERS tcAppName, tcParam1
DO (tcAppName) WITH tcParam1

Build myvfprun.exe and use it to launch your application

myvfp6run bcmain 0

Rememeber, that all parameters're passed into EXE as strings.



>I wanted to pass a parameter to my application at startup, using the vfp6runtime. But it doesn't work.
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>The entry point to my program is bcmain:
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>In my shortcut I tried:
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>c:\windows\system\vfp6run bcmain 0
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>**bcmain.prg
>lparameters tcProgram
>?type('tcProgram')
>** when started from runtime as shown above, returns L - no matter what the parameter is, 0, "0", '0'
>This is a problem for me, since I want to use the runtime in this environment, not always compile an exe.
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>However, when I compile to an exe, the type is returned as C, regardless of whether I use 0, "0", '0'
>This I can live with, but I prefer it to understand the data type
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>
>do bcmain with "0" from command window, type is c
>do bcmain with 0 from command window, type is n
>This is fine of course
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>Can someone explain this behavior, or better yet, tell me if there is a way to pass a parameter to the startup program using the runtime?
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>TIA