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Can I simulate the command window in an application
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01/11/2002 13:57:45
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Forms & Form designer
Title:
Can I simulate the command window in an application
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00717951
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I have several compiled applications running on computers that have only the FoxPro6 runtime files installed. Occasionally I would like to get in and fix something. If I had full FoxPro installed, I could fix from the command window.

I have prepared a small app that I use to open files and browse tables that are not readily viewable in the application. I can modify records one at a time, create and delete index tags, reindex, pack, zap, etc because I have build those specific functions into my utility app. It would give me much more capability in the utility app if I could simply type a valid FoxPro command into a text field and then someway execute that command. For instance, if I had a series of records with the wrong date I could do something like:
Replace all trandate with date()-5 for trandate = date()-4
to simply move the date in those records back one day.

Is something like this even possible in a compiled application? Obviously I would have to use the utmost discretion with this power.
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