Is it possible to record anything printed on the FoxPro screen

[Chad101]

For instance, lets say I ran a prg that had the following output:

?"Running program helloworld.prg"
.
.
.
??"...done!!"

Is it possible to save this output into a cursor or an array?

i.e.

laOutput[1] = "Running program helloworld.prg"
laOutput[2] = "...done!!"

Just curious...

 

[Mike Lewis]

Yes, this is quite easy:

SET ALTERNATE TO somefile.txt
SET ALTERNATE ON
?"Running program helloworld.prg"
.
.
.
??"...done!!"
SET ALTERNATE OFF
SET ALTERNATE TO
[code]

That will get the output to text file. You can then use APPEND FROM to copy it to a cursor; or FILETOSTR() to get it onto a variable.

Mike


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[Mike Lewis]

In fact, if your aim is to monitor a running program (to view messages that inidcate what the program is doing), you might be better using DEBUGOUT. That will send the output to a separate window, from where it can be directly saved into a file.

Mike

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[Dan Freeman]

The only caveat about DEBUGOUT is that it requires the IDE and won't be available in a runtime application.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Good point, Dan.

Mike

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[Chad101]

awesome!! Thanks