Task Pane Options

[mstrcmtr]

Is there any way to stop Task Pane Options form when VFP start

 

[Olaf Doschke]

By the way the only reason the task pane shows no html is missing MSXML4 (it also displays the missing OLE component), when you install on systems not having that installed, and the only reason VFP starts slow by default is the taskpane community page trying to retrieve current news from gotdotnet.com, a site not existing anymore since quite some years already.

You can simple remove gotdotnet.com reference from panecontent.dbf:

*-- Open the TaskPane content table
USE ADDBS(justpath(_foxtask))+'TaskPane\PaneContent'

*-- Move problematic web links to OptionPage memo
REPLACE OptionPage WITH Data FOR DatSrc = 'U' AND 'gotdotnet.com' $ LOWER(Data)
REPLACE Data WITH '' FOR DatSrc = 'U' AND 'gotdotnet.com' $ LOWER(Data)

USE

Courtesy of Pavel Celba, see

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/F...t-remember-defaults?forum=visualfoxprogeneral

After doing so, VFP also starts fast with taskpane on, it's not all the fault of the taskpane, it's the fault of gotdotnet.com not existing, and taskpane waiting with timeout instead of asynchronically continuing.

And by the way: if you didn't yet fix that, you can see VFP already is ready for you, if you go into the Program menu and see VFP code is running, that's the task pane code waiting for gotdotnet, you can cancel, too. But it's of course tedious to do that for every start.

Bye, Olaf.