When You Launch an App, Does VFP Work as a Compiler or Interpreter?

[drosenkranz]

Hey All,

When I am running an application during development and one of the forms fail, I find other parts of the application are still running in the backround. I have found that if I suspend the operation and then cancel the application from the debugger, everything "unloads" properly.

In VB I can change a line of code and resume with my changes to the offending line from that point. VFP makes me quit first- then make changes- then re launch the App.

< Does FoxPro work like a compiler in this respect as opposed to an interpreter? >

Is this why I have pieces of an application still running in the background if I cancel on an error in a form that was called modally on top of another form?

Thanks for the info.
The 2nd mouse gets the cheese.

 

[GrigoreDolghin]

Hello.

The .FXP file is a semi-compiled code. When you launch the app, Visual FoxPro runs the .FXP file. So, if you want to make changes, FoxPro needs to recompile the .FXP (in fact, not only the fxp; FoxPro makes a semi-compiled code in almost everything).

IMO, the correct answer is: Visual FoxPro does not work as a compiler, nor an interpreter. Is somewhere in the middle Grigore Dolghin
Class Software
Bucharest, Romania

 

[drosenkranz]

Thanks my friend- I appreciate your time.
The 2nd mouse gets the cheese.