FILER LIMITATIONS - ANY FIX????

[andy0923]

IN REGARD TO thread 184-1078970

Thanks Mark

What you state is exactly what I ended up realizing - it must be in the Dll - and has nothing to do with filer.scx.

Isnt it rather a dumb oversight in light of long filenames and Microsoft touting Foxpro in general and the filer object in particular. You may have seen other thread - filer does not report system files either LOL - so if u want to program stuff about a hard drive, be sure that you have shorter filenames and that you are only searching/finding non-system files. Again thanks for your conclusive work and good luck.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Andy,

Microsoft touting Foxpro in general and the filer object in particular

Is Microsoft touting the filer object? I don't recall seeing any particular encouragement for us to use it. In fact, isn't this one of the items they included for backward compatibility only?

I sympathise with your annoyance, but the nice thing about VFP is that it lets us use such a wide variety of tools. If the Filer doesn't behave the way you want, you could always look for another component that does.

Mike


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[craigsboyd]

andy0923,

As the limitation is in the function itself, and we haven't got the source code for that dll, and since filer is not supported any longer, I would suggest that there are many ways to skin this cat that don't involve filer that would serve you quite well...

Need to find a listing of files in a particular directory and the subdirectories it contains:

Get Files in Directory (including subdirectories)
faq184-4256

Need to search for a particular file or folder on the hard drive:

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=18073

...anyways, there are so many ways to get all the functionality that Filer provided and even more. It might be more helpful to work on the solution to the problem you were using Filer to solve rather than working on Filer itself.

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[andy0923]

Thanks

FAQ184-4256 is precisely what I used. Filer would have been easier to code. I just found the whole thing amusing from a logical point of view. I love Foxpro, but hummmmm, I wondering about Access .

 

[dbMark]

MS Access is a bit of a step down in capability and flexibility. And it has its quirks too. It all depends on what your needs are.

 

[andy0923]

You appear to be correct and thanks for confirming my suspicions. For one thing, I've been spending hours just trying to find a simple way to directly import a .dbf file. I was being a bit sarcastic but hope that Foxpro will continue to be highly supported and not just be a Microsoft stepchild. Old guy here - from the days of Atari and Ashton Tate LOL