impact of running VFP9 sp2 from external drive

[Nifrabar]

Hi!
Having several PC's I have copied all VFP files together with my projects on an external drive. Yes, I know certain files should be registered but by just copying the dll's in the default dir's it can be done without registering.

That always worked fine with Windows XP.
Now, doing same using Win7 machine some strange happens.
In a projecthook, part of build-proces, I create a zipfile, including fresh SDT files together with DBC. Zipping requires to remove the active dbc temporarily from the project.
I use therefore command:
_VFP.ActiveProject.Files(lcFile).Remove() whereas lcFile is the DBC.
With win7 it generates error message : Member FILES does not evaluate to an object.
Typing in in the command window: ? _vfp.ActiveProject.Name gives expected result whereas typing in _VFP.ActiveProject.Files(lcFile).Remove() results in mentioned error. Note that for test I gave lcFile value [with fullpath] of : "E:\vfp\projects\prive\code\test.prg"


Any workaround so I can continue using VFP on external drive?

TIA
-Bartt

 

[Olaf Doschke]

What's different with win7 is several system dirs are protected and/or virtualised, but this isn't a problem for a path like E:\vfp\projects...
I think you will find the reason for the errors, it doesn't look like win7 related.

"Member FILES does not evaluate to an object." occurs, if the pjx is not loaded in the project manager or another project has focus. Lookout if _VFP.ActiveProject is type object and _VFP.ActiveProject.Name is the pjx you expect it to be.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Also, it would be wise to change the default setting of EXCLUSIVE to OFF and then you don't need to exclude the dbc from the porject to be able to zip it.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Nifrabar]

The latter sounds very usefull!
Going to give that a try and will inform about results.
Thanks
-Bart

 

[Olaf Doschke]

The bad thing about it is, the defaults are stored in the registry and so this may not work with VFP on a stick. But you can SET EXCLUSIVE OFF in your project hook, that should do it.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

To be more specific: SET EXCLUSIVE OFF in the init of your project hook.