Hi Dragan,

Well, I can tell you that my little thread certainly struck a chord!

What I can't understand is why ISE seems to work so poorly. I mean IS has been around for years. I wonder if the VB coders are having this much trouble. It's all very interesting.

Oh well.

Hugh

>>While what your friend has done might be a perfectly acceptable response, it seems to me that rewarding a company who first punishes you with unacceptable product then ignores your tech support needs (and refuses to even create a Visual FoxPro specific thread on its user discussion board) is a waste of the greatest bit of power a software customer has. That of walking away.
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>Here's my story. I've gone through the learning curve of the Limited Edition, and I've built numerous versions of the same setup, with sufficient success. Then after a few months of other stuff, I had to return to it for a few additional builds. Few things have changed meanwhile - I've rebuilt my box, and because of the quirks of the OS, my drive letters are now D:, F: and G: (if you ever wanted to know what happens when your box has no C: drive, try it, it's fun). So I reinstalled ISLE, and ran it - getting only a brief flash of splash screen, and nothing more. Reinstalled, installed, 3-4 full cycles, including a few reboots.
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>And then I turned off my firewall before installing - and voila... here it is. Just won't work before telling Big Brother that another potential suck... customer. When I was a kid, these kids who always told home what was going on and who's had what for breakfast were never popular. But I figure this is the price of freeware (hi, IS, see I'm smiling on the picture).
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>Other beef: the drive the project was based on was E:, now it's F:. I figured there'd be a way to tell it to replace paths, just for the root directory of the project, and it would update other paths relative to it, and I was right... except I was wrong, it's not in the freebie version. Never mind, Subst E: F:\ does the trick.
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>Now let me see which files do I need to refresh... no way. My locale has the dd.mm.yyyy date set, and ISLE reads the display values of the dates, treats them as American dates, and then converts them if possible (or reads them as they should be, if impossible), so the dates in the project's directories are sometimes right, sometimes with month and date switched - and still formatted as they should be for my locale. There's no way to sort by date and get the same order in the upper and the lower box... unless you admit your language has the whole idea of dates completely wrong and go with Standard American Date (which is not the ANSI date!).
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>Try to build - can't find VFP runtime module. Funny, I thought this was a version which came with VFP. I've found it myself, and drag-n-dropped it into the module box, no dice. Read the help, and it says:
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>"The merge modules you see in the Merge Module Gallery come from the following folder, which contains the modules that InstallShield distributes:
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>F:\Program Files\microsoft visual foxpro 7\isle\System\;F:\Program Files\InstallShield\Modules\i386
>To add a module to the gallery, copy the .msm file to this folder."
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>So much for GUI. And the reason it couldn't find them was most probably the location ("D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Merge Modules") which could well turn out to be a secret Microsoft didn't want to tell IS. Or is it that my %programfiles% isn't on C: drive? At least the attempts to try to sell me the newer versions don't open IE - after some SP somewhere, it now accepts Mozilla. But I still keep a screenshot from before, when (with the same version of ISLE) it said it can't accept any other browser but IE.
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>After so much good stuff in a free product (and I haven't remembered everything), I'm sure to... use INNO next time. It's even more free, doesn't call home.