I missing the Filer and the Action Diagram that was in FPW2.6

[Xaplytz]

Does somebody remember de Filer command and<br>In Beautify optionv than is the *.RPG was in Fox Font<br>You could display Action Diagrams <br>Ok<br>Well I would like to know if somebody figured out how to do those things<br>In VFP<br><br>thank<br>

 

[foxdev]

An somewhat open-source version of filer is included with VFP.&nbsp;&nbsp;You should be able to run it this way:<br><br><FONT FACE=monospace>do form (home() + &quot;tools\filer\filer&quot</font><br><br>The Filer form includes source; it is handy for searching for files (which is its intended purpose), but not very good at file management functions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since source is included, though, we're all free to modify it to our heart's content.<br><br>The big breakthrough is FILER.DLL, which really does all the work.&nbsp;&nbsp;FILER.DLL is a COM object, and it has saved me many hours of writing some file-finding routines for some sweeper programs I've had to write.<br><br>Further information can be found in the on-line help for VFP 6 under the topic &quot;Filer.dll&quot;. <p>Robert Bradley<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

http://www.foxdev.com/>FoxDev

- Visual FoxPro Development</a><br>

 

[jonscott8]

Robert,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;If I remember correctly, it's not <i>legal</i> to distribute filer.dll in apps. You think it will ever be freely distributable?<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Because in my testing, I have found filer to be more effecient than the Windows Find File in terms of speed (then, that might have something to do with Windows having the animated magnifying glass.)<br><br>Jon <p>Jon<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>Carpe Diem!

 

[foxdev]

The statement in VFP's on-line help says:<br><br><font color=blue>&quot;Filer.dll and its companion files are for use with Visual FoxPro only. You are not permitted to distribute any of the files with your distributed run-time applications.&quot;</font><br><br>I don't know why Microsoft imposed this restriction; its not like it licensed the technology from another company (like the spell checker was). <p>Robert Bradley<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

http://www.foxdev.com/>FoxDev

- Visual FoxPro Development</a><br>

 

[BlindPete]

As nearly all my apps are distibuted filer.dll was no help to me.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ultimately (like the rest of you) I was forced to write my own class.&nbsp;&nbsp;Too bad I hate to duplicate effort needlessly.<br><br>My class is not fancy but searches all drives from&nbsp;&nbsp;C to Z (that exist) for the filename that you pass it.&nbsp;&nbsp;It returns a string [Drive]:[Path][Filename w/ extension] and empty() if not found. If wildcards (*/?) are used it returns a cursor.<br><br>If you want it email me and I'll send you the prg file.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> <p> <br><a href=mailto:blindpete@mail.com>blindpete@mail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>