RE: Introduction and problems with old old code
Welcome and Good Morning (at least in my part of the world) Depending upon what you mean by porting to VFP 7. Any error messages when you attempt to open the project with VFP 7? And VFP 9 shouldn't have any problems opening the forms, I transfer back and forth between VFP 6 and VFP 9 just about every day... Assuming some sort of familiarity with the original project would it be possible to rebuild by starting with the main program? Regards, Desmond Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:23:57 +0900 To: profox@leafe.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Introduction and problems with old old code Hi, new to the list. Just to introduce myself, I used to be heavily involved in FoxPro long ago, in the 2.6/3 era (and earlier, in the FoxBASE+ era), coded in it heavily, in user groups etc. I have an old app from that era that I still support, when they call me up every couple of years. I don't really do much other Fox work, and I don't think I'm likely to. The problem is I've just been called in to deal with some problems with this app - odd behaviour it never used to display. The app was written originally for FoxBase+, then ported roughly to VFP 3 on Mac, then about 3 years ago I ported it to VFP 7 on Windows. Now, VFP 7 won't open the old project files anymore, we have VFP 9 but that doesn't appear to understand old .scx files. Any advice on bringing an old product like this into the modern era with minimal pain? Regards David ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Introduction and problems with old old code
Hullo.
There's a difference between the concept of
can't open the project
and
can't open files in the project
If you can't open the project any more - then try to use the project file
as a table, and see if you can at least do that. if you can not, then the
project file itself is corrupted.
If you can't open files in the project, then it could be one of:
1. file listed in project, but is not physically stored _NOW_ where it
was _PREVIOUSLY_. You'll have to do a search for the file names, suggest
using the search in Windows Explorer or a cmd shell [dir filename.ext /s]
2. file listed, file exists, you can see it, but you can't make changes
and save it. Check the file attributes. Also - was this project ever
under a source control provider, such as Visual Source Safe? If so, then
you have
to strip the VSS attributes out of each file, and remove any VSS control
files (SCA, PJM, etc etc] and change the file attributes to remove 'read
only' .
3. File listed, file exists, you can see the file, but never opens up for
editing at all. throws some error message or not. It's possible the file
was corrupted as a table. Remember that most 'things' in vfp come in
pairs - there will be 2 files for a report file, for example, 2 files for
a form, 2 files for a class library.
Do you get any error messages when you try to do stuff with the project
file? Please describe the action you are doing prior to the error, and
the verbiage on the error itself.
Regards [Bill]
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