GoFish for VFP versions before 9

[Jimrnelson]

@myearwood1

Mike, there's something you wrote some time ago that has been stuck in the back of my mind:

We have to keep the application in vfp6, but run GoFish in 9. We try not to open things in 9 in case they get converted.

I assume from this that you can use GF to find text but do not double-click in the grid to open your code for editing. Instead, you must go back to your session in VFP6 and manually open the file to be edited and locate the search text.

I would find this quite tiresome and cumbersome.

So I have been wondering if the following suggestion would be helpful:

A new option, so that when you double-click on a row in the grid, instead of opening the code directly, the clipboard is filled with code to be pasted into the Command window in your VFP6 session:

Modify Command Somefile.prg Range nStartCharacter, nEndCharacter

I believe that this is likely quite straightforward to implement.

[myearwood1]

Interesting idea. I'd appreciate any improvement. Since we can not do incremental search in the project manager, I built a small utility screen that also checks out the module from source safe.

If I could customize what was put in the copy paste buffer I could

Do form myproj with 'filename.ext'

[Jimrnelson]

@myearwood1

I certainly will want to provide you with a way to customize this the way you need.

The VFP function used in GF to open files for editing is EditSource:

EditSource(cFilename [, nLineNo] [, cClassName] [, cMethodName|cProcName])

The default behavior for this new feature will be to paste the appropriate call to EditSource into the clipboard.

The customizable behavior will be that you will be able to enter a call to a custom UDF, something like:

MyCustomEditSource(cFilename [, nLineNo] [, cClassName] [, cMethodName|cProcName])

[myearwood1]

@Jimrnelson

Allow me to remind you of the idea of building to an exe. For those who are stuck in a previous version, as I am, launching a GoFish exe would be possible from VFP without having vfp9 installed. You could compile the exe, copy it away, compile the app, copy the exe back and distribute both, so the user could decide which to use.

[Jimrnelson]

@myearwood1

I am unable to build the EXE. I get the following error:

Can you build it? You should have all the source code.