Re: Classlib not releasing from memory and no objects showing in memory

I hope M$ fixed that in VFP7=2E Bummer! Thanks for the confirmation, Larry=2E

Michael J=2E Babcock, MCP

President, Central Pennsylvania Visual Foxpro User Group

vfpmcp@hotmail=2Ecom

"Code smarter; not harder=2E"

>>> "lhbradley@igs=2Enet" 12/04/01 06:36PM >>>

Bad news, Michael - CLEAR CLASSLIB does not seem to work reliably, if at

all=2E CLEAR ALL is the only way I have ever found (up to VFP6 SP%, at least)

to clear classes from memory=2E

Larry

At 03:52 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, you wrote:

>Here's my scenario:

> - Master=2Eexe calls Child=2Eexe

> - Child=2Eexe copies most recent classlibs from LAN to client if ftime reports

>difference=2E (I've shifted to the fat client design=2E)

> - User exits child=2Eexe and the last 3 lines of the main (driver) prg of that

>exe is the CLEAR CLASSLIB lines for the 3 libraries I was using=2E

> - I make some changes to the LAN classlib=2E

> - User (me in testing mode) re-enters exe, I notice that the COPY FILE lines

>fired and give the impression that the update was done (via Wait Window stmts

>in routine), BUT the client has the same old copy of the classlib! I do a

>CLEAR ALL after I make any changes in my IDE, and I can use Explorer to see

>that the ftimes are different, so why isn't it copying the files? To test

>my theory about the client app still having it in memory, I exited VFP

>so that only my app was open, opened Explorer and tried to delete the files,

>but it gave the error message: "[Error Deleting File] Cannot delete

>msmhshared: Access is denied=2E Make sure the disk is not full or

>write-protected and that the file is not in use=2E" Well, the obvious answer

>the last one: the file is in use=2E But the CLEAR CLASSLIBs should have taken

>care of that?!???!

> I've verified that there are no objects in memory from that classlib

courtesy

>of the DISPLAY MEMORY / DISPLAY OBJECTS commands=2E

>Any ideas?

>TIA,

=20=

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