Re: Restarting VFP app

2012-07-22 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 7/20/2012 7:23 PM, Ted Roche wrote: Search for VFP loader and you'll likely find the code in Ed's downloads, on the Fox Wiki or VFOX. The authoritative article was FoxPro Advisor in '94, IIRC. Ted, What that FPA article the one written by Stephen Settimi? -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB

Re: Restarting VFP app

2012-07-21 Thread Mike Copeland
Thanks Fred! That's pretty cool...I'm going to play around with this. Mike Original Message Subject: Re: Restarting VFP app From: Fred Taylor fbtay...@gmail.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 7/20/2012 6:05 PM One way I've done similar is to create an object that attaches

Re: Restarting VFP app

2012-07-21 Thread Mike Copeland
Subject: Re: Restarting VFP app From: Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 7/20/2012 6:23 PM Use a loader app. The loader finds out if the main app, libraries, supporting files, etc. needs updating, downloads them, then launches the new app. Search for VFP loader

Restarting VFP app

2012-07-20 Thread Mike Copeland
Just spitballing here... Anyone have any ideas how to have a VFP application shutdown in order to restart? I'm thinking about something like when Firefox has downloaded an update...it prompts you to restart Firefox to install the update. I'm assuming that the same EXE file (Firefox) that

Re: Restarting VFP app

2012-07-20 Thread Fred Taylor
One way I've done similar is to create an object that attaches to _SCREEN, and in that object.Destroy, I set the _SHELL system variable to DO mystartup.prg. Any thing in _SHELL is immediately executed, and then is cleared. So, anything that causes the object in _SCREEN to go away (CLEAR ALL)

Re: Restarting VFP app

2012-07-20 Thread Ted Roche
Use a loader app. The loader finds out if the main app, libraries, supporting files, etc. needs updating, downloads them, then launches the new app. Search for VFP loader and you'll likely find the code in Ed's downloads, on the Fox Wiki or VFOX. The authoritative article was FoxPro Advisor in