Gene,
Again, I am not a VFP developer, but my understanding from the
Clipper/VO/X# XBase fork:
SET DEFAULT change the path where when not specifying a path, will
determine where it will first look at trying to find the file. The
default is the Executing directory.
SET PATH is used as alternative places to look when not found in the
DEFAULT folder. There are certain file open commands that does not
adhere to this which I cannot set my hands on now since it is stated in
the Clipper/VO/X# help to be documented in the specific
commands/functions help description.
HTH,
Johan
On 2019/08/14 05:57, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
Hello:
I have an app that has for years been executed out of the default
directory with the data there, too.
Now, I have to give at least the data an arbitrary location. Can
I use SET DEFAULT for this and save having to rewrite hundreds of
table referring statements? Or are there nasty things to worry about?
I am thinking of having a config table in the startup default
directory that specifies the data directory and then SET DEFAULT to
that directory. When executing a .exe version of the app, I think
this will not cause trouble, but for a debug version with separate
.fxp, I think I also need to SET PATH for the code to be found. I
join all my code together with SET PROCEDURE TO ... ADDITIVE in the
startup .fxp if that makes a difference. Are the gotchas going to get
me?
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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