Last Update

[audiopro]

I have an app which displays the 'last updated' date in a text box which I edit each time I update it. Is there a way to automatically display the files 'last modified' date in a text box?

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[brigmar]

Use the ADIR function, passing the filename of the current table:

ADIR(laFiles,DBF())

laFiles(1,3) will contain the last modified date (as a date)
laFiles(1,4) will contain the last modified time (as a string)

 

[audiopro]

What are attributes B and F?
My list only shows A, H, R, S and D.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[audiopro]

This is VFP6

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[r0gerc]

How about lupdate() or fdate()?

 

[Mike Lewis]

Keith,

Apart from A, H, R, S and D (that is, archive, hidden, read-only, system and directory), there are attributes for compressed, encrypted, volume label, indexed, and possibly others.

Sorry I don't know which specific letters apply to those in VFP, but it should be possible to figure it out with a bit of trial and error.

Mike


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[Mike Lewis]

r0ger,

You mentioned LUPDATE() and FDATE().

FDATE() is a good choice for EXE files (which I assume is what Keith wants).

LUPDATE() wouldn't work in this case, because it only applies to tables (DBFs) -- and only if they are open. I also vaguely remember a problem with it in VFP 6.0. Perhaps is wasn't Y2K-compliant, or something like that.

Mike

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[Koen Piller]

Hi AudioProp,

If you would like to see the lastupdated date or datetime of the application, your best bet is to make use of a projecthook.vcx.
If you would like to see the lastupdated date or datetime of a dbf, your best bet is to make use of lupdate().
There is/was a problem with not being 2YK compliant, but that is not oportune anymore to my opinion.
Regards,
Jockey2

 

[audiopro]

Thanks guys, I will give those suggestions a try.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Windows API would be an alternative, GetFileTime. There are several times for each file, the creation time, the time of last access (read or execute) and the time of the last write. You can get all these with GetFileTime:

http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=177&function=262

Bye, Olaf.