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I am successfully running Xbase++ applications compiled with Xbase++ 1.90.355 Apr 9, 2009. All compiled on a Windows XP machine. My company wants to upgrade to Windows 7 64 bit. However, when I compile my applications on the Windows 7 machine they do not run. They also give me a "Possible DLL versio...

Thanks Roger,

That code does what I wanted to do. I like Tom's idea of creating a service too.

Doug

How can I hide an xBase++ application so it is not visible on the desktop and on the windows task bar. I want an application to wake up when a file appears at a network location.

Doug

Thanks, Auge_Ohr

Those changes to my dbesys() worked. You and Roger are the best!

Doug

Hi Roger, I added "COMIX" to my DBESYS. Changed my program to the following. It errors when the key length gets to 121. What am I doing wrong? Doug PROCEDURE MAIN LOCAL mDBPath := "" LOCAL mDBIndex := "TESTCDX" LOCAL cDBKeyC := "KeyField" LOCAL bDBKeyC := {|| FIELD->KeyField} FOR mLen := 1 TO 140 IF...

Hi Roger,

" What is your reason for not liking COMIX?"

Fear of the unknown and I couldn't get it to work. I tried adding:
DbeInfo( COMPONENT_ORDER, CDXDBE_MODE, CDXDBE_FOXPRO2X )
and it still didn't work. How can I enable COMIX?

Doug

Thanks for you help. Alaska support agrees that the documentation is misleading (Translation "It's Wrong") and recommends limited the length of the key for CDXs to 100 characters. Without much effort, I can rewrite the code. I would prefer not to go with COMIX or FOXPRO2. (Alaska said, and I verifie...

I have a problem when a .CDX is created in the following example. The index key is 140 characters with the field “Collection” included. xBase++ does not like this length and errors when the index is opened. It I remove “Collection”. The key index length is 85 and the program does not error. The docs...

I got a response from Alaska Support. They pointed out that if I change to file to a local hard drive file, the time dropped to 2.15 seconds. I was able to duplicate those results and will change my program to now print to a local drive.

Doug

When I created my own DevPos() and DevOut() to print reports to a file, the time went down to 1.2 Seconds. From 12.9 seconds in Clipper and 126 seconds in Alaska. That is the solution I am going to implement. Users are always happy when you make the application runs 10 times faster. Ten times slower...