I did a moderate size project in FP Mac (I think it was version 2.6). They used it for gathering huge amounts of complexly related data about their programs, then generate annual reports to various government agencies that funded their work.

I was an emproverished newcommer to the world of the entrepreneurship and couldn't afford to spring for a Mac in my office. So I developed on a Windows platform, taking the components to my client's system and running a program I wrote to fix up some minor differences between the platforms that couldn't be handled by testing the platform meta variable, then rebuilt the project on their system.

I remember it was a bit clunkier than the Windows version and the interface certainly wasn't very Mac-like, but it wasn't as slow for me as you indicate. Projects compiled in a few minutes. It wasn't that buggy for me either, though I did come across a couple minor bugs and inconcistencies with Windows that were easy to work around. (I also ran across a few bugs in the Windows versions too.) My application was all native FP tables, however, and didn't require any access to external databases. The database also resided on the same machine, so there weren't any networking issues.

But the report writer and the data processing beat the pants off the database system they were using before. (Filemaker, I think? I can't recall anymore.)

While it wasn't as smooth as working on a Windows platform, they felt it was a big improvement over what they could do without FP.

...Jim

>During FoxPro Mac's mercifully brief life, the most prominent booster was Lisa Slater. She wrote a pretty decent book about it which I used in my one FPM project, which was a consulting gig for a very large Chicago-based company. I wish I had better news to report, and maybe things have changed (which I doubt since Microsoft stopped developing it after one release), but it remains the worst software product I have ever had the misfortune to work with. Buggier than Maine in June, not really true to the Mac interface, and sloooooow. Slow as in 30-40 minutes to do a project build before you could test your latest change. And that wasn't hardware, because we had the best Macs available at the time. It was pure agony.
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>I love FoxPro. I love Macs. The two just didn't intersect very well. A botch.