justamistere
Programmer
VFP opens multiple .dbf files in a main MDI window, but unlike MS-Word, it minimizes to one icon.
We have been using VFP-6, then installed VFP-7 also on WIN-2k-SP4 O/S. When right-clicking and selecting "open with", and choosing "Microsoft (r) Visual FoxPro (r) 7-SP1" it opend just one copy.
I had edited the registry "...vfp7.exe\shell" To the "FriendlyCache" value, shown above, I added the " 7-SP1". To the "FriendlyCache" value "...vfp6.exe", I added a " 6" to distinguish the two. This fixed the problem on 4 PC's. I have one that's stubborn.
We have gone through the process of "right-clicking" on a .dbf and "Choose Program", "always open with", and pointing to the vfp7 executable. Two copies of the .dbf aliased as "A" and "B" are opened for say 12345.dbf
the exact registry key mentioned above starts at:
"My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Application\vfp6.exe"
I have also tried changing the "command" key value among ...-SHELLOPEN "%1" and ...-SHELL and ...-SHELLOPEN
none made any difference.
...the "FriendlyCache" is not so friendly.
We have been using VFP-6, then installed VFP-7 also on WIN-2k-SP4 O/S. When right-clicking and selecting "open with", and choosing "Microsoft (r) Visual FoxPro (r) 7-SP1" it opend just one copy.
I had edited the registry "...vfp7.exe\shell" To the "FriendlyCache" value, shown above, I added the " 7-SP1". To the "FriendlyCache" value "...vfp6.exe", I added a " 6" to distinguish the two. This fixed the problem on 4 PC's. I have one that's stubborn.
We have gone through the process of "right-clicking" on a .dbf and "Choose Program", "always open with", and pointing to the vfp7 executable. Two copies of the .dbf aliased as "A" and "B" are opened for say 12345.dbf
the exact registry key mentioned above starts at:
"My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Application\vfp6.exe"
I have also tried changing the "command" key value among ...-SHELLOPEN "%1" and ...-SHELL and ...-SHELLOPEN
none made any difference.
...the "FriendlyCache" is not so friendly.
