FPW 2.6 migration to VFP 9.0 and XP

[HDLBaller]

I am sure this topic has been beat to death, and I have searched back a while and found nothing recently so I will kindly ask for your assistance again with this issue.

I am a new user on this forum and have been struggling running my FPW 2.6 application on an XP machine. I got the standard error of "Divide by Zero" on my 98 machine. I went to Microsoft, installed the patches, and have gotten it to run okay on Windows 98, but nothing at all on XP. I read somewhere that the problem might be with the CPU speed being over 500MHz. Could that be the problem???? What I have read so far on this forum tells me no.....but.

I have a compiled version of a custom program for keeping baseball league statistics. Strictly personal, but really slick. The problem is that I can only run it on older machines and am unable to distribute because no one uses 98 anymore.

I have also tried to migrate to VFP 9.0 with limited success. I used the conversion tools in 9.0, but keep hitting snags that won't let it run or compile properly. I can open and edit the code just fine, but compiling is the problem. Even though no errors are reported, the application won't start in 9.0 in either 98 or XP. on XP, the program starts, then just dies almost immediately. I would like to possibly distribute this software in the future.

Can I just install my FPW 2.6 on my XP machine? I think I tried that but had problems. I have been working on this for a while, so I get confused on everything that I have tried on both the 98 and XP platforms.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated?????

Thanks,
Paul

 

[DSummZZZ]

There are several dozen posts in this forum on divide by zero errors, running on XP, and memory configuration.
I have Fox 2.x developement environment as well as .exe's running on XP machines now, and they does fine.
Do some more poking around with searches on those items and you should get it.

Also, don't rely too much on the VFP9 conversion utilities. They - at best - give you a starting point, but still need much twiddling to get everything to work properly. In my opinion, they are really only useful as an interim 'fix' to use until you can take the time to rewrite them.


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[DSummZZZ]

Let me add, you will need to apply the dzpatch to any .exe's you've made along with the stated files in the developement environment to get the .exe's to run on any machine with a CPU faster than 333mhz.


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm