>Hi David
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>>No, VFP does not have two way design tools. If I'm working with forms or visual classes I just do everything in the form/class designer.
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>Okay

In some cases I have a two-way tool: paired builders for grids. One creates the code to recreate the grid and places it in its .init then deletes all columns; I usually run that (though, I copy it out into a tmp.prg) after some editing - so I have the grid in a prg file, I can do there whatever I want, then run it on a reference to the grid being edited, and it's rebuilt by that code, so then it has all the properties as set in the code.

Though, it doesn't work with methods of contained objects. Haven't needed that, really, but it's also feasible. Too bad I never had the time to continue the "Half-baked builders" series in FoxTalk 2.0 - I even have a builder which would rebuild your visual class or scx from the output from the class browser's code export (that one would need a slight tweak at one place in the class browser code in 8.0, a fix which was accepted in 9.0).