Admittedly, I don't know a lot about the Environment Manager, but what I've seen of it so far, it would be lots more work to configure than my solution for the way I work.
The Environment Manager looks like a good idea if you have smaller number of large projects you need to work on a regularly. My situation is I have hundreds of individual projects sharing most of the same Option settings, but I need to control default search paths and relative paths independently. And those paths may change frequently as projects move through our development process. However, I can see where the Environment Manager could be very useful for the right person.
Thanks for the reminder.
Paul H. Tarver Tarver Program Consultants, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Kaye [mailto:rkaye@invaluable.com] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 6:41 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Running Multiple Instances of VFP 9
I know you've come up with a good solution that works for you but I thought I'd mention that the situation you're describing is exactly what the Environment Manager is for.
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul H. Tarver Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 6:22 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Running Multiple Instances of VFP 9
I guess the deal is that if I open VFP by clicking on a .PJX file, it seems to always open in the same dev environment, but if I open VFP by clicking on the VFP icon, I can get a new development environment. The challenge is that because I work on so many different projects I use unique config.fpw files to set the paths and other custom settings for each project. That means if I start the project from the folder where the config.fpw is located, all the settings are controlled by the config.fpw stored in that folder. However, if I start the program from the icon, it loads the standard default settings which are not necessarily what I need for each specific project.
I think what I was really asking was whether there was a setting that would force VFP to open new projects in a new development environment. Kind of like right clicking on a link and choosing to open the page in a new tab or a new window.
Paul H. Tarver Tarver Program Consultants, Inc. Email: paul@tpcqpc.com
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