Hi Terry,

>The RIO Article is here - it's not the book of books - I am looking for ideas to rip-off all the time - but if we are to be compeditive with VFP - we need to move from grids based design to OCX - that all I am saying:

I cannot understand why are you so fascinated with treeviews,
and why you think they should be widely used to 'enrich' our interface patterns.
Not all data are hierarchical, so unless there is screaming need/must/request why should we use them ?

As you said, sometime less is more.
What is wrong with (smart) grid to search/select records accompanied with 2-3 buttons like Add,Edit,Delete - HotKeyed and backed up by apropriate
grid-rightclick shotcut-menu options?

What harm/user confusion can possible come out of that ?

I find navigation/search with smart-grids much faster , key responsive and troublefree - then any treeview implementation.
No activeX no ocX - just well equiped VFP grid.

I would be interested to hear more then just *treeview is cool*
kind of argumentation why, where and when - they are superior to
power grid aproach.

In order not to hijack this one, maybe we should start new thread
about this subject.