Application Wizard

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The Application Wizard creates a Project and a Visual FoxPro Application Framework then opens the Application Builder so you can add a database, tables, and forms or reports you have already created. You can also create a new application in the Application Builder, using database or table templates. Once you have created a framework with the Application Wizard, you can use the Application Builder later and add components to the framework.

Dialog options

Project name

Specifies the name of the Project that is displayed in the Project title bar.

Project file

Specifies the file name of the new project.

Browse button

Enables you to locate an existing project file to use in the Application Builder.

The Visual FoxPro 6.0 framework provides the following elements of the Visual FoxPro 5.0 framework:

• A project (.pjx) file -*
  
  
• A main program file (Main.prg) for global and environmental settings, launching any splash screen or other specific calls, and launching any Quick Start form
  
  
• A main menu
  
  
• The Enhanced Application object for running the main menu, forms toolbars and report management, error handling, and data session management

Visual FoxPro 6 adds the following additional framework elements:

• A master Include file to ease localization and for use by components with settings and strings. This file includes the APP_GLOBAL value
  
  
• Dialog classes that provide the Splash screen, and About and password dialog boxes
  
  
• Visual FoxPro foundation classes that provide error, array, and window handling, output control, and data management
  
  
• A mediator class that enables forms and form classes to benefit from enhanced framework-specific functionality
  
  
• enhanced application object functionality such as automatic toolbar refreshing
  
  
• An optional configuration file (Config.fpw) for certain types of applications
  
  
• The Project Hook Class for control of events related to the project
  
  
• An Application Meta table to hold information used by the project hook class and application builders for creating forms within the new project
  
  
• Application Builders to make it easy to add components to the project

The enhanced application framework itself provides a preference table that provides individual logins of user-specified options that can include macros, favorite files and so on.

The Application Wizard creates a directory and project structure for a future application, and creates files from the new Visual FoxPro Application Object that provide Project Hook and enhanced application framework functionality. For details, see Application Framework and Application Builder in Help.