Class Definition FILER.FILEUTIL not found.

[Joy Tan]

Hi All,

Trying to run filer with VFP9 on a system that doesn't have VFP9 installed.
I tried to register filer.dll, it appears to have done it with regsvr32 /s filer.dll - I place filer.dll in folder c:\windows\syswow64

Ran filer and this error occurred.
An error occurred with filer.
...
Class Definition FILER.FILEUTIL is not found.

Any ideas on how to get this going?

Thank you.
Joy

 

[Mike Lewis]

You need to put the DLL in VFP's search path. It should either be in the VFP default directory, or a directory listed in your SET PATH.

According to the Help for Filer:

You can distribute Filer.dll and its companion files, Filer.ico, Filer.scx, and Filer.sct, with your Visual FoxPro run-time applications

That suggests that you also need to distribute the form and the icon. However, you won't need to do that if you are running Filer from your own form. The supplied FILER.SCX is really only a sample.

Also, as far as I know, you don't need to register the DLL.

Mike

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[Chris Miller]

Hi Mike Lewis and Joy Tan,

Filer.FileUtil is a COM object and needs to be registered. Just look into the filer.scx:

regsvr32 /s filer.dll

is not registering it properly, if you don't run it from a cmd.exe that's elevated or from an elevated cmd file or within a setup that runs elevated. You register it into the virtual branch of the registry, where it's not seen by OLE.

So do this:

And then run regsvr32 filer.dll or regsvr32 /s filer.dll

Chriss