>I'm just exploring some of VFP's foundation classes. I ran across this:
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>In app.h is this:
>#DEFINE ERROR_IN_ERROR_METHOD_LOC    "Error in error handler"
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>As far as I can find it's only used in one place in _error class.
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>What's the point of defining something in an include file that only gets used once?
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>Assuming that they put it there so that it's available to me, how would I ever enen know that it's there? If I'm subclassing a foundation class, I'm not going to study every line of code in it to see what's available.
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>TIA


To not have to study and update a lot of code, you just have to update the H file and recompile.
The *_LOC items can be usefull for foreign language apps.
You just have to translate the H file, recompile and you have a italian or french app :-)