>Enjoyed the feedback, but remain to be convinced.
The price check Kinundrum:

In San Antonio a big food store chain that is wiping out most albertson's and Wal Mart locations uses an xBase POS. Their produce is fresh, a good value and employees are well paid. When they computerized, some young 'pink' just out of high school kid wrote a POS app for them in Clipper. The app has migrated to to a Windows program.

With that app, a cashier can work an invoice - stop - have a clerk do a price check - and check out the next customer while waiting. If I have been checked out - and look at my ticket - and find a problem - I can go back to the cashier, he can recall my invoice, revise it - and give me a refund - while two other sales are open.

You can't do that kind of app with modal solutions. The developers realized that customers waiting inline because an open invoice is pending a "price-check" is not good. The store was more concerned with making their customer's life easy than they were about the leisure priorities of their developers.

>Anyway, this isn't getting the nasty VFP bug z-order bug fixed, so I'll work around it as usual...

We do - do a lot of work arounds! We do challenge the product! We have a great big paradigm called VFP - but our expertise sometimes seems more a measure of how quickly we "brain" a work around than our skills with the 5 or 10% of the paradigm we use.

I don't "blog' as many of mine as I used to because C5's are usually something - despite all the support I get here - I will have to deal with mano-y-mano with my project. But the increase in C5 sightings also means we, as a community, are pushing the heck of the paradigm - and that's good news: We are pushing ourselves and he design envelope.

Still - I would prefer a real error message as opposed to a C5!