HOWTO: Use the New Application Property in Visual FoxPro 5.0

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This new property works for both the development version of Visual FoxPro and a Visual FoxPro executable. The Application property provides access to the properties and methods associated with the _VFP object. For example, assume you want to display the DefaultFilePath property for the current instance of Visual FoxPro from the Click event of a command button in a form. The following code placed in the Click event of a command button provides this information:

   WAIT WINDOW This.Application.DefaultFilePath
				

In a Visual FoxPro 5.0 executable, the application property is also useful. The following code in the Click of a command button can change the title of the executable:

   _VFP.Caption="This is a Different Title"
				

The Application property and _VFP are used interchangeably. Therefore, all of the following return the same value--"Microsoft Visual FoxPro":

   ?_VFP.NAME
   ?_VFP.APPLICATION.NAME
   ?APPLICATION.NAME
   ?_VFP.PARENT.NAME
   ?_VFP.APPLICATION.PARENT.NAME
   ?APPLICATION.PARENT.NAME