FoxPro Setup - How to change the caption and/or icon of VFP 9?

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How to change the caption and/or icon of VFP 9?

Peter

2005-04-07, 8:05 pm

I have installed both VFP 8 and VFP 9. They have the same icon and caption.
So, it is hard to tell which version I'm running. How can I change the icon?
How can I change the caption of VFP so it always use that caption when it
starts?

Thanks.

Stefan Wuebbe

2005-04-07, 8:05 pm

You can assign the _screen properties
_screen.Caption = "my project"
_screen.Icon = GetPict() && for example

hth
-Stefan

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>I have installed both VFP 8 and VFP 9. They have the same icon and caption.
> So, it is hard to tell which version I'm running. How can I change the icon?
> How can I change the caption of VFP so it always use that caption when it
> starts?
>
> Thanks.

Peter

2005-04-07, 8:05 pm

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the reply. I guess you mean to put those lines in a
configuration file where VFP9.exe or VFP8.exe is located.

Does the configuration file need to be named config.fpw?

Peter

"Stefan Wuebbe" wrote:

> You can assign the _screen properties
> _screen.Caption = "my project"
> _screen.Icon = GetPict() && for example
>
>
> hth
> -Stefan
>
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Fred Taylor

2005-04-07, 8:05 pm

No, you can put those lines in your main .PRG program.

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"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Stefan,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I guess you mean to put those lines in a
> configuration file where VFP9.exe or VFP8.exe is located.
>
> Does the configuration file need to be named config.fpw?
>
> Peter
>
> "Stefan Wuebbe" wrote:
>

Stefan Wuebbe

2005-04-07, 8:05 pm

HI peter,

As Fred pointed out, that syntax would run in any VFP code, prg,
method, whatever.

As for the config.fpw option, syntax is different there - for example,
you can set the Title in a config.fpw
title = my project
(w/o quotes).
But I think you can not change the icon that way.

OTOH, the actual advantage of a config.fpw is that it is evaluated
very early, i.e. long before your "main.prg" code jumps in and also
before _screen gets visible and foxuser.* is created.
So IMO it's useful to do only a few things there at runtime, maybe
just
screen=off
resource=off

That way (you won't get a useless resource file on a customer's box
and) _screen won't be visible until you tell it to be, i.e. later in your
code, probably after having designed _screen to meet your specs.
* "main" startup pseudo code
&& _screen is invisible yet by config.fpw line
With _screen
.Icon = 'your.picture'
.Title = "xy"
&& .BackgroundColor = RGB(255,0,0) &&etc.. And finally:
.Visible = .T. && m.yourChoice, depending on mainForm.ShowWindow
EndWith

As for the file name, if you do want to use a "config.fpw" file, you can
use any name and use the -C commandline switch,
e.g. call it "yourConfig.file" and have a desktop shortcut pointing to
x:\theFolder\your.exe -CyourConfig.File

or, with Windows' "long" file/path names
"x:\some folder\extended name.exe" -CyourConfig.file

You wouldn't need a -C parameter by using the default name.
(If you include a config.fpw via project manager, you don't need
to ship it separately)

hth
-Stefan

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"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi Stefan,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I guess you mean to put those lines in a
> configuration file where VFP9.exe or VFP8.exe is located.
>
> Does the configuration file need to be named config.fpw?
>
> Peter
>
> "Stefan Wuebbe" wrote:
>

DJ Hunt

2005-04-07, 8:05 pm

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Why not just rename the icon, and the flyover text so that you don't get
them confused?

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Cindy Winegarden

2005-04-07, 8:05 pm

Hi Peter,

I assume you're talking about the VFP IDE and not a running application. You
can put code in a startup program (Stefan showed code that will do the job).

I have several instances of VFP running at the same time with different
projects. Sometimes I do something as simple as typing _Screen.Caption = "My
Project" in the Command window. Other times I've used a project hook to
automatically perform that service when a project is open. In the Tools >
Options > Projects > Project Class I've set the default Project class a
ProjectHook class with the following code in the Init():

LOCAL loProject

_VFP.Caption = ""

FOR EACH loProject IN _VFP.Projects
_VFP.Caption = JUSTSTEM(loProject.Name) + ", " + _VFP.Caption
ENDFOR

_VFP.Caption = SUBSTR(_VFP.Caption, 1, LEN(_VFP.Caption) - 2)

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"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have installed both VFP 8 and VFP 9. They have the same icon and
>caption.
> So, it is hard to tell which version I'm running. How can I change the
> icon?
> How can I change the caption of VFP so it always use that caption when it
> starts?
>
> Thanks.

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