Jeff Johnson wrote on 2014-12-17: > > On 12/17/2014 11:29 AM, Wes Wilson wrote: >> It almost feels like Microsoft made a subtle change that impacted on VFP's ability to handle paths. >> Issue 1: MPRIOR_CK - variable not found. made it public and program worked. >> Program then behaved differently when run under the dev license vs running the exe. >> Worked fine when I ran it under VFP 9 dev license but not when I ran >> NOVA.EXE. It could not find novahelp.dbf. Then I changed to the >> full reference and it did find it. It is possible that MPRIOR_CK is >> initialized from a mem file that could no longer be found due to no >> being able to find it. Set Path To >> \Nova\mha,Help,Main,Admin,Fox_Gl,Bd,Bob,Chg,Class,Clie,Com,End,Prod, >> ; >> Rep,Err,Focus,Other,Ord,Comp,Fee,FoxCmd,Graphics,Menu,WebFocus,Pershin >> g && ERW-WGW 05/25/05 >> Set Help To NOVAHELP.Dbf stopped finding NOVAHELP.DBF. I changed the command to "SET HELP TO \NOVA\FOXP\CBS\HELP\NOVAHELP.DBF and it worked. >> Wes >> Wes Wilson, President ERW Custom Programming, Inc. Crescent Lake Plaza >> 5459 Elizabeth Lake Rd. >> Waterford, MI 48327 >> (248) 683-4182 >> www.visual-foxpro-programmer.com >> >> www.erw.com [email protected] >> >> > Wes: This is probably not what you want to hear, but I always specify > full paths and do not rely on the VFP path. I store them in > configuration files. That way I don't get mixed up with moving my > applications to any environment. > > HTH
Wes, We do something similar to Jeff. We found customers would somehow copy data to root folder. This caused that table to open in some scenarios, and the data\table to open in others. Tracy Pearson PowerChurch Software _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
