PRB:Visual FoxPro App's .EXE Quits & Returns to Command Window

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

When a Visual FoxPro application executable that was created from a workstation installation of Visual FoxPro quits, it returns to the Visual FoxPro Command window.

CAUSE

The distributable .exe file is using Vfp.exe to run.

RESOLUTION

Use one of the following options to resolve this behavior:

• Place a copy of the Vfp300.esl support library file in the directory where your Visual FoxPro-created .exe is located.

  -or-

• Add the QUIT command after the CLEAR EVENTS command in the procedure you use to close the executable.

  -or-

• Install Visual FoxPro using one of the other three available install options: Minimum, Complete, or Custom.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Using the following configuration of a PATH statement in your Autoexec.bat file that refers to the directory where the administrative version of Visual FoxPro is installed with the VFP300.ESL support library, create an executable of a simple form located on your local drive. After pressing a Quit button on the executable's form, you return to the Command window.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Install the administrative version of Visual FoxPro on a server.

2. Connect to that server, and install the workstation version of Visual FoxPro on your local drive.

3. Modify the PATH statement in your Autoexec.bat file so that it incorporates the drive and directory of the administrative version of Visual FoxPro.

4. Create a new project that holds the following program:

   var=CREATEOBJECT("MyForm") var.Show READ EVENTS

   DEFINE CLASS MyForm AS Form

        ADD OBJECT MyCommand AS CommandButton WITH top=5,left=5,caption='Quit'
   

        PROCEDURE MyCommand.Click
          CLEAR EVENTS
        ENDPROC
   

   ENDDEFINE

5. Create an executable from this project. Check that the .esl and Vfp.exe files are in the administrative FoxPro directory and not on your local drive.

6. Run this executable outside of Visual FoxPro.

7. Click the button to exit the executable.