>>Hi,
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>>In a very small executable I want to let the user choose an app. Then the app, containing a form, will be executed. The app is chosen with the help of GETFILE(). In that phase I don't want the main vfp-window, so I put SCREEN=OFF in the config.fpw. However, this also prevents the visibility of Getfile().
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>>Any other solution?
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>What sorts of executables do you want to show?
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>I showed the users a list of executables - different versions of what was otherwise the same executable, with numbers. I created a cursor, showing the users only the version number (extracted from the filename), and the creation date, in a grid.
Hilmar, the apps are not the problem. (FYI, the apps will show an as-top-level form.) The problem is that getfile() will not be visible with SCREEN=OFF, unless I beforehand do: _screen.visible = .T.
In the past I discovered that WAIT WINDOW and MESSAGEBOX()
will be visible. GETFILE() isn't.
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