>Introduction information:
>I’m Anthony L. Testi and I have not been a user of the UT for 4+ years only a very limited lurker. I purchased Mere Mortals a number of years ago ( 3 I think ) and had it ‘shelved’ for so time as other projects kept getting in the way. Well events have lead me to dust it off and attempt to use it for real. I am a big Fan of Kevin’s design philosophy, or at least what can be learned in a few hours at a VFP User Group and conference session etc.
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One (potential) issue you will run into (this came up when VFP 8 came out). You will run into this as soon as you try running the BizObj builder, so you might as well fix it right now.

Open the Utility.PRG and modify the CharValue() function to this:

FUNCTION CharValue(tuExpression)
   IF VARTYPE(tuexpression) == "O"
      lcRetVal = ""
   ELSE  
      lcRetVal = TRANSFORM(tuExpression, "")
   ENDIF

   RETURN lcRetVal
ENDFUNC

Also, before starting up your app, you need to do:

DO StartMM

You will need to do that before running any app. - CD into the app. directory, then issue that command. It's pretty important and you will have a ton of problems if you forget it. Also make sure you do rebuild the project and recompile all files before running it.

To "reset" an app, you will need to go into the registry and remove the application key that was created for it. HKCU\Software\YourCompanyName\YourAppName

There is also a file named appincl.dbf that is in your app's "Include" directory that holds the company info/app name/version.

Oh yeah, always accept the defaults the first time you're using a new product <g>. You'll also want to "become one" with the docs. There is a ton of information in there, so it's easy to overlook things.

HTH