Screenshot: https://www.screencast.com/t/xcxxlUanhv
SET PATH looks like a bastard (incorrect) expression value, data folder, app startup folder, and WWWC website folder.
("FULLPATH(CURDIR()),\WSDATA\BW2005,\WSAPPS\BW2005,\WEBSITES\BW2005")
SET DEFA is just the C: drive!!!!
I'm betting that's the smoking gun.
Thanks all. I just would have lost money believing that because it was
included in the EXE, it should be in memory and thus able to be found,
especially since we usually always say DO FORM frmCrap instead of DO
FORM \forms\frmCrap. (Or at least I do. I stopped putting paths in
code years ago for included forms because I got an error by a form that
was NOT included in the EXE and didn't ship separately and thus failed
to open when called from the app.
On 12/9/2020 1:49 PM, Richard Kaye wrote:
Nope. Can't do it. 😊 VFP does funny stuff with relative pathing in SCX/VCX/MNX for image refs and include files. I think VFP is looking on the C drive for that form and unless you explicitly add the path to the forms folder on the E drive, it's not going to find it. I just watched the movie. What are the values for SET DEFAULT and SET PATH? -- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech <[email protected]> On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions, LLC Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SCX form included in EXE is not found on DO FORM line Can we agree though that if a SCX form is included in your EXE, a DO FORM frmCrap should work regardless of its pathing??? That's what blows my mind on this one. On 12/9/2020 9:55 AM, Richard Kaye wrote:Try adding a config.fpw with the dev path on your dev system? -- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech <[email protected]> On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions, LLC Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 9:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SCX form included in EXE is not found on DO FORM line Yeah....wOOdy posited that too. I'm guessing that's the cause...but weird that it works in the Production (client) server space but just not on my dev machine. On 12/9/2020 9:29 AM, Richard Kaye wrote:It could be the form location on a different drive/volume is the source of your fun... -- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech <[email protected]> On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions, LLC Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 9:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SCX form included in EXE is not found on DO FORM line Hi Srikanth, I agree with you on better project management, and I always do that for my own projects, but with this inherited one (that's a real pain in the arse), I tried to change as little as possible. My approach with this project has always been to take the "least invasive" approach possible as it has proven fragile/unsteady in the past years. On 12/9/2020 3:47 AM, Srikanth Bhandari wrote:Hi Mike, My guess is that the SCX should - either be in the same folder as the Project - or in a sub-folder of the Project folder If it is in any other location it would run in Runtime but would fail while running in the EXE. Recommended that all Project Files be kept in the Project Folder or for better organizing put them in, as many, Sub-Folders within the Project Folder. I am sure doing the above would solve your challenge. -- Cheers!!! *Srikanth Bhandari* Mobile: +1 669 292 9849 / +91 99625 42134 / +91 99001 39393 Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Web: srikanthbhandari.ind.in On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 1:17 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < [email protected]> wrote:Oh sorry, Frank. Let me clarify: Project is in on my C: drive in the legacy folder (c:\wsapps\bwd). Form is in E: drive in my Dev\Client\Forms folder. Clear as mud now? ;-) --Mike On 12/8/2020 2:23 PM, Frank Cazabon wrote:I had looked at it 2 or 3 times but it doesn't answer some of the questions asked by others here and I'm still not 100% sure of one thing in particular. Woody asked you:Maybe, when compiling the EXE you are not saving tot he project folder?and you responded:it's definitely NOT the same folder tree...not even the same DRIVE!but below you have confirmed that point #5 is correct that it was built in the same folder as the PJX. Which is it? Frank. Frank Cazabon On 08/12/2020 3:07 pm, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:Hi Frank, Yeah...pretty much right. Take 43 seconds and see what I mean: 43 second demo showing the problem:https://www.screencast.com/t/ZjyWYqFIOn 12/8/2020 12:22 PM, Frank Cazabon wrote:Mike, I'm coming in a bit late and am a bit unclear on some of your answers to previous questions. Let me know if this summary is accurate or not, please: 1. Your exe calls an SCX (DO MyForm.scx - without any path to the scx in the call) 2. The SCX is included in the exe 3. When the exe runs at your client site or on your PC outside of the VFP IDE the form is run properly 4. When you run the exe within the VFP IDE on your PC it fails, unless you have a SET PATH to the folder where the SCX is. 5. Your PJX and the EXE are both in the same folder on your development PC (the exe is actually built there, not built elsewhere and copied back) Frank. Frank Cazabon On 08/12/2020 1:03 pm, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:On 12/8/2020 9:22 AM, Richard Kaye wrote:A fine question. 😊 I didn't watch the movie. Are you putting a path in on your DO FORM call? Do you have a back door where you can see the runtime environment settings? I would think if you want VFP to walk its path to find the form in the EXE, then your DO FORM call should not include a fully qualified path or even a partial one.Exactly....when I remove the pathing, it fails on my Dev machine (even when run inside the VFP IDE as I do the "run after build" option when creating the EXE). I have to put the pathing there for it to work. BUT, WHEN DEPLOYED TO THE CLIENT, WHERE THAT DEV FOLDER DOESN'T EXIST, it works. Cue Randy Quaid in the Vacation movies saying "I don't know!" :D
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