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shellopen.scx & foxpro 8
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| Emilio 2005-09-19, 1:26 pm |
| Hello all,
My foxpro 8 folders didn't contain a shellopen.scx, so I copied the one from
a foxpro 7 installation. It ran fine (after I had to locate a couple of
..vcx's), but I still get a new instance of foxpro for every file I open
(double-click in Windows Explorer). How can get all (foxpro) files to open in
the current foxpro 8 instance (that I double-click)?
Much appreciated,
Emilio
Portland, OR
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| Fred Taylor 2005-09-20, 3:24 am |
| You can't. What you'd have to do is check if the app is already running and
exit the new instance. There's a wide variety of ways you could do this,
like checking for the exclusive use of a table, a record in a table being
locked, a mutex in the OS, etc.
--
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
"Emilio" <Emilio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> My foxpro 8 folders didn't contain a shellopen.scx, so I copied the one
> from
> a foxpro 7 installation. It ran fine (after I had to locate a couple of
> .vcx's), but I still get a new instance of foxpro for every file I open
> (double-click in Windows Explorer). How can get all (foxpro) files to open
> in
> the current foxpro 8 instance (that I double-click)?
>
> Much appreciated,
> Emilio
> Portland, OR
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| Emilio 2005-09-21, 8:25 pm |
| Thank you Fred.
That's unfortunate, but I appreciate the reply.
-Emilio
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| Mike Pratt 2005-09-26, 1:25 pm |
| Hi Emilio,
In a run box you could alwas try <path to vfp8> with the /regserver command
line switch.
On mine it would be "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Foxpro 8\VFP8
/regserver".
Regards,
Mike
"Emilio" <Emilio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> My foxpro 8 folders didn't contain a shellopen.scx, so I copied the one
from
> a foxpro 7 installation. It ran fine (after I had to locate a couple of
> .vcx's), but I still get a new instance of foxpro for every file I open
> (double-click in Windows Explorer). How can get all (foxpro) files to open
in
> the current foxpro 8 instance (that I double-click)?
>
> Much appreciated,
> Emilio
> Portland, OR
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