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Question on EXTERNAL command
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28/07/2003 13:48:40
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Visual FoxPro
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Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
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00814214
Message ID:
00814251
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Tracy;

Somehow brings back memories of indirection to pull the form into the project, but the Proc bit is not self-explanatory.

Which approach works? Go with the one with the least code! :)

Tom


>Below is code in a VFP app that also runs in FPD26. The FPD26 version runs a screen and the VFP version runs a form:
>
>
>#IF !'VISUAL' $ UPPER(VERSION())
>	DO co_prnt.spr
>#ELSE
>	DO FORM co_prnt.scx NAME oco_prnt LINKED
>#ENDIF		
>
>
>One of my coworkers modified it to now be the below code:
>
>
>#IF !'VISUAL' $ UPPER(VERSION())
>	DO co_prnt.spr
>#ELSE
>	EXTERNAL PROC co_prnt.scx
>	SET KEYCOMP TO DOS
>	DO FORM co_prnt.scx NAME oco_prnt LINKED
>	SET KEYCOMP TO WINDOWS
>#ENDIF		
>
>
>My question is why add the EXTERNAL PROC line? Isn't that NOT necessary in VFP? All functions running in the vfp8 form are contained in the form itself as properties of the form. I could understand a EXTERNAL FORM command if I was using macro substitution, but I'm not.
>
>TIA,
>Tracy
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