I have experienced similar problems using VFP 6. I created a simple program called s.prg that resides in the root directory that contains clear all, close all and clear program (along with some on key settings for comments). It doesn't make sense to me, but I found that if I run the program twice prior to doing a build then I don't receive the error. Just do \s, up arrow and run it again. For whatever reason, it seems to always work.


>I have now determined that the problem must be to do with the dev environment. I do not get the hanging problem immediately after starting VFP8. However issuing:
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>CLOSE ALL
>CLOSE PROCEDURES
>CLEAR ALL
>CLEAR DLLS
>CLEAR MEMORY
>CLEAR POPUPS
>CLEAR PROGRAM
>CLEAR RESOURCES
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>after exitting my .APP and then trying to recompile regularly throws this error.
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>Any geniuses out there? What else can I clear?
>John
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>>Sorry Hilmar, this doesn't help.
>>There is no database built into the project.
>>Over the last few days I have experienced this over and over. I replace with a backup, recompile and things are fine for 5-6 iterations. Then it hangs again ...
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>>This is effing annoying!
>>Any clues anyone?
>>
>>John Burton
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>>>I had the problem of the build hanging, once - the problem turned out to be a corrupted database. Listed in the project, of course. You may want to try the validate command.
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>>>>Has anyone reported this before?
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>>>>[running VFP8 SP1 on W2K SP3]
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>>>>When I use BUILD APP to compile my project (150 .prg files, 3 classlibs, 20 reports, 200+ images), it compiles the newly changed files but then, intermittently, hangs when building the .app file.
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>>>>Actually, it doesn't hang but gets into some kind of very long processing condition which causes the .pjt file to bloat in size. I stop VFP with the Task Manager which reports VFP as 'Not responding'.
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>>>>If I try to BUILD APP again after restarting, I find the project file has been corrupted (and have to replace the .pjx and .pjt files with backups).
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>>>>I have had this project through VFP3, 5, 6 and 7 and everything has converted successfully to 8 which I have been running for 3 months perfectly well otherwise.
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>>>>I have tried 'Clean up project'.
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>>>>Ta.
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>>>>John Burton