I rarely build applications, so I'm basically just dealing with scripts -- the prg files themselves. When an error occurs, the .prg file pops up in the vfoxpro text editor. I'd like to change that to my editor-of-choice.
This is the way I'm accustomed to work for Q&D data manipulation one-off...
In practical terms, I think you have no worries until the distant future.
While 64-bit applications are supposed to be the big and coming thing, there are very few of them yet, and I have seen none that show any great advantage over their 32-bit counterparts. (With the exception of overcoming...
Olaf, that's actually the first thing I tried.
I'm also new to Win7, having finally switched over last month from XP because I got a system that could. (May still go back to XP, mutter, mutter.)
But using Notepad didn't work, whereupon I figured maybe there's something different about Win7, so...
I remember the dbase built-in editor wasn't too wonderful either, so I preferred programming in, yes, WordStar. (Sneer not, my fingers knew the commands for everything.)
I want to use a programming editor that has a little more language sensitivity, knows when to indent, when to stop, maybe...
Now I'm trying to puzzle out TEDIT Having a config.fpw file that says
TEDIT F:\Program Files\Metapad\Metapad.exe
isn't working, nor does any variant of it, so I'm lost again. Is there a short course on the subject of config files somewhere?
This has me feeling pretty stupid.
I was a dBaseII programmer from way back in my Apple II days under CP/M. I did Foxpro, and Clipper, but then left xBase for a long time. I've come back to Foxpro for some personal stuff and am re-learning details long forgotten.
My problem's with starting...
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