Re: Lost dev environment

I figured out what's causing my development environment to go south, it's
InstallShield Express. I had my environment all setup from last time again
and when I build my installer application it somehow messes up the resource
files for VFP.

Has anyone seen this before? Is there some form of a property change I need
to make to stop this behavior?

Thanks in advance,
Linn

"Linn Kubler" <lkubler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok, I think I got it. I just deleted the foxuser.dbf file and re-launched
VFP and it recreated the resource files. Now it seems to be working
correctly so far.

Thanks and sorry for using up all this space...
Linn
"Linn Kubler" <lkubler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So doing a search of help I found that sys(2005) will give me the
location for resource file. I checked and the file exists. Noticing
that it is a .dbf file I tried opening it as a table to see if it was
corrupted. I then got an error message that the foxuser.fpt file is
missing or is invalid. I looked and sure enough, the foxuser.fpt file is
missing. Since this is a workstation I don't back it up, is there any way
to recreate this file?

I don't know how it could have gotten deleted, unless Install Shield
Express glitched some how. But that would be weird. I've used it before
without this kind of trouble.

So, how can I get this system back on it's feet?

Thanks,
Linn

"Linn Kubler" <lkubler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No, I didn't copy them, where are they located for the development
environment? I may have deleted them, but even if I did won't VFP
recreate them as necessary?

Thanks,
Linn

"Dan Freeman" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Window positions, etc., are stored in the Foxuser resource file(s).
When you copied (or moved) your exes to the setup directory did you
inadvertently move your resource file as well? (And provide all that
useless data to your end-users? <g>)

Dan

Linn Kubler wrote:
Hi All,

All of a sudden my VFP has lost it's memory. Before, yesterday, when
I would launch VFP the Task Manager would pop up and have a list of
recently used projects. When opening a project all the tabs, Data,
Documents, Classes, Code and Other, would open with all of the trees
left in how I had them when using them previously. The editor
windows would open sized the way I liked them, even the command
window would be as I had it setup.
All of a sudden, just today, everything acts like it had never been
opened before. The task manager doesn't remember my recent projects,
the All tab is the default and all the windows open small so I have
to resize them to use them.

What gives? The only thing I remember doing is compiling the
application and creating an install routine with Install Shield
Express. Any one know how I can recover my environment, or at least
get VFP to remember it from session to session? This is VFP 9.0 sp1,
BTW.
Thanks,
Linn










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