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<blockquote data-quote="MythosaAkira" data-source="post: 89538" data-attributes="member: 2428">Can't go to sleep...Foxpro will eat me...can't go to sleep...Foxpro will eat me...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Just some bad memories of a recent project at work. Actually not Foxpro's fault, moreso the consultants who used it.No, TS won't be reading Foxpro any time soon, or even not-so-soon... I'm trying to stick to text-based formats, so the most people need for customization is Notepad.Actually, you can call TableSmith and feed it parameters on the command-line; you could do that, delay a bit, send a Windows command to shut down TS, then parse the &quot;Temp.html&quot; file it generates (the header and footer are standard so they can easily be stripped away). The UI would still pop-up, at least momentarily.I haven't changed that yet, as I got burned by an gaming-app programmer a few years ago. He tried to incorporate TS functionality into his program, as well as a bunch of tables written by myself and others; the functionality thing is nothing I could do anything about (nor would I have tried), but he claimed the tables as his own creation and was charging money for the program. After I contacted him, his solution to fixing the problem was for me to give him the TS code so he could implement all its functionality and in return he'd put a link to me on his Web page...Because of that, I've been leary about making it too easy for someone to incorporate TS into another project without the user being aware of what was going on. I don't mind the idea of someone using TS as a generation engine in their own project, just so long as the user is aware of what's going on.In any case, it's something I can look at again. I haven't given it much thought in awhile.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MythosaAkira, post: 89538, member: 2428"] Can't go to sleep...Foxpro will eat me...can't go to sleep...Foxpro will eat me... :) Just some bad memories of a recent project at work. Actually not Foxpro's fault, moreso the consultants who used it. No, TS won't be reading Foxpro any time soon, or even not-so-soon... I'm trying to stick to text-based formats, so the most people need for customization is Notepad. Actually, you can call TableSmith and feed it parameters on the command-line; you could do that, delay a bit, send a Windows command to shut down TS, then parse the "Temp.html" file it generates (the header and footer are standard so they can easily be stripped away). The UI would still pop-up, at least momentarily. I haven't changed that yet, as I got burned by an gaming-app programmer a few years ago. He tried to incorporate TS functionality into his program, as well as a bunch of tables written by myself and others; the functionality thing is nothing I could do anything about (nor would I have tried), but he claimed the tables as his own creation and was charging money for the program. After I contacted him, his solution to fixing the problem was for me to give him the TS code so he could implement all its functionality and in return he'd put a link to me on his Web page... Because of that, I've been leary about making it too easy for someone to incorporate TS into another project without the user being aware of what was going on. I don't mind the idea of someone using TS as a generation engine in their own project, just so long as the user is aware of what's going on. In any case, it's something I can look at again. I haven't given it much thought in awhile. [/QUOTE]

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