Form Disappears

I am using VFP 9.0 SP1 and as I am in the development process of a
Form I apparently edit the Form while it is still running in memory.
After issuing a CLEAR ALL I attempt to edit the Form again and it is
gone from the hard drive. However there are two files in the project
folder 00002WAX00LR.TMP and 00002WAX00LS.TMP, which I assume are the
SCX & SCT files. I rename the extensions and attempt to open the Form
and nothing opens. I also attempted to open the actual form table to
view its structure and I get the Memo file missing or corrupt error.

How can I stop this from happening and how do I recover the Form? It
is still "available" in the .app file since the form will display when
I run the app. If there is no way to recover the Form is there any
way to extract the code from the app file?

This is the second time in two days this has happened to me, so any
help would be appreciated.

Many thanks,

-Ric

DanFreeman
Fri Feb 15 12:24:02 CST 2008

Something is very wrong in your environment. I haven't seen a screen
disappear such as you describe in the twenty years I've been using the
product. Not once. But it happens to you twice in two days?

What operating system are you using?

You might be able to find REFOX or some other decompiler to work on your app
but I suspect you will end up with a PRG instead of an SCX, but even that's
better than nothing.


"rcaruso" wrote:

> I am using VFP 9.0 SP1 and as I am in the development process of a
> Form I apparently edit the Form while it is still running in memory.
> After issuing a CLEAR ALL I attempt to edit the Form again and it is
> gone from the hard drive. However there are two files in the project
> folder 00002WAX00LR.TMP and 00002WAX00LS.TMP, which I assume are the
> SCX & SCT files. I rename the extensions and attempt to open the Form
> and nothing opens. I also attempted to open the actual form table to
> view its structure and I get the Memo file missing or corrupt error.
>
> How can I stop this from happening and how do I recover the Form? It
> is still "available" in the .app file since the form will display when
> I run the app. If there is no way to recover the Form is there any
> way to extract the code from the app file?
>
> This is the second time in two days this has happened to me, so any
> help would be appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> -Ric
>

Man-wai
Sat Feb 16 06:16:53 CST 2008

> How can I stop this from happening and how do I recover the Form? It
> is still "available" in the .app file since the form will display when
> I run the app. If there is no way to recover the Form is there any
> way to extract the code from the app file?
>

Is your form modal?

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