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A button to build a project

The Visual FoxPro desktop is an object itself and is represented by the _screen keyword. It has properties such as _screen.backcolor and _screen.caption to alter its appearance but you can also treat the desktop as a container and add objects to it. A button on the desktop can be a very useful shortcut:

The code below puts a button on the desktop and binds its Click event to code that will build the executable.

Public oHandler

*-- We don't want to see progress reports as the
*-- button object is created.
Set Talk Off

oHandler = Newobject ("ClickHandler")

With _Screen
.AddObject ('cmdBuild', 'commandbutton')
Bindevent (_Screen.cmdBuild,"Click",oHandler,"Build")
With .cmdBuild
   *-- Set the appearance of the button first ...
   .Caption = "Build"
   .Top = 10
   .Left = 10
   .Height = 27
   *-- ... then make it visible.
   .Visible = .T.
Endwith
Endwith

Set Talk On

Return

*----------------------------------------
Define Class ClickHandler As Session
Procedure Build
   Build Exe webadmin.exe From webadmin Recompile
Return
Enddefine

The button saves the four or five mouse-clicks needed to build an executable from the Project Manager. It might not save much time on a single build but the savings build up during the day.

Use the startup technique described here to add this button as Visual FoxPro loads. Back to FoxPro Developers' page

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