Thanks guys for all the advice! Ted's warning is good to know - the possibility of tangled memo fields resulting from what I anticipate doing for this project tells me that I will want to use a different approach for future projects!
I have now successfully opened multiple projects in a single instance of VFP and started copying click events etc from test code to the actual project.
Thanks again - Joe
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 6:06 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@flexipol.co.uk wrote:
Also you can, of course, drag and drop from one project to another with
no problems.. Something "obvious" which is often overlooked!!
You can, though I generally advise against it. There's a bug that pops up rarely where two projects, or two forms, or two class libraries open at the same time can get their memo fields hopelessly mangled or blanked. Your only resort at that point is to find backups.
My advice:
- Get your software in source code control, so you have at least one
source of backup. Hint: source code control is much easier than you think. ZIP files are NOT source code control.
- Use the file manager to make a new folder with the source you want
in your project.
Add a MAIN.PRG that points to the resources you need.
Create a new project by BUILD PROJECT FROM MAIN.PRG
If you have resources that aren't pulled in by #4, you need to
figure out how to make that happen. Hint: EXTERNAL is your friend. This is what the command is for.
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