How detect if in compiled EXE or running as developer? 2

[dbMark]

I've looked in the command set and also here in the search section, but I don't see an easy simple way to detect in my code whether the program is running as a compiled application using the run-time DLLs or in developer mode such as when I press the "Run" button in the project box?

Surely someone's asked this before? (I've checked out SET"("DEVELOPMENT") but that's just a setting to tell the program whether to verify the compiled code is current.)

 

[Olaf Doschke]

it's _vfp.startmode

Bye, Olaf.

 

[robsuttonjr]

Use the VERSION(2) function to determine which version of FoxPro is running. This returns 0 for RunTime, 1 for Standard, and 2 for Professional.

You can also use this to determine if a certain window is open and disallow another instance:

DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow IN user32;
STRING lpClassName,;
STRING lpWindowName

** put this in main prg
IF findwindow(null,"Untitled - Notepad") = 0
DO myprog && OR HAVE CODE TO LAUNCH FORM ETC.
ELSE
RETURN
ENDIF

Regards,

Rob

 

[robsuttonjr]

_VFP.StartMode && RETURNS 0 - DEV MODE, 4 - RUNTIME
VERSION(2) && RETURNS 1 or 2 - DEV MODE, 0 - RUNTIME



Regards,

Rob

 

[dbMark]

Thanks, everyone! I'd checked all the SYS() commands but didn't consider VERSION().

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Hi,

VERSION(2) may be sufficient for your case, but _VFP.startmode gives much more information, eg. if foxpro is run as IDE, via COM automation (VisualFoxpro.Application), as an out-of-process exe COM server, as an in-process DLL COM server, as distributable APP or EXE or as in-process DLL for multithreaded use.

And the VFP system variable has much more interesting properties to offer.

Bye, Olaf.