>Think your good? I got one for you. VFP 7.0 people only.
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>Over the last few weeks I have been experiencing the wonders of VFP 7.0 SP1. What a great product (minus the bugs)!
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>I came across the new feature of being able to add pictures to the Menu. {Plunk} I added all of the pictures for my app. Preview... beautiful! Generate and exit. Thinking all was safe...
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>Once I re-entered the menu again to edit... pictures are GONE! Gotta check this out in the properties right?! In the properties, it changed the location from "c:\blah\blah\cut.bmp" to "...\blah\cut.bmp". Now lets take it a little further.
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>I exit the menu leaving things just as they are "...\blah\cut.bmp"; after all this is still correctly pointing to the file.
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>Let's enter the menu one more time (remember I only saved and generated the menu once!) Enter the properties again... voila "...\blah\cut.bmp" has changed to "..\..\blah\cut.bmp"
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>Obviously this has something to do with GENMENU.PRG right?! WRONG! I said I only generated once not three times. Yes, GENMENU does a play with the path a little in the code; but I didn't execute it. Now does this mean that the Project changed the path on me???? Of course the program errors out big time.
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>WHERE ARE MY PICTURES????
Hi Gordon,
I have seen similar behavior. If I always change to the directory that contains the menu, then the relative paths are correct, and I don't lose my pictures. The problem is that I don't always remember. Hopefully, this will be changed in a future release.