Perhaps ETec can produce a full list, each item with a checkbox, and invite people to return the list by email, with each 'regularly used' item checked.
>>And if you would like to take the 2nd position, would you like people to have additions made to the VFP10-wish list? Is it a good idea to make an Etecnologia-chapter on UT? etc. etc.
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>Give them time to finish a vfp9-compatible version first ;-)
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>In the article it is mentioned that
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about one third of the commands and functions is implemented
>funding for more developers might be a problem
>SQL is a language in itself
>perhaps defining in between steps is a better help than rasising the bar.
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>I myself would pay for a "backend part" only, consisting mainly of all the functionality found in the FPW/FPDos versions:
>albeit with Select-SQL on the level reached in vfp9,
>all xbase functions found back then impelemented with all the vfp9-level-functionality
>? and wait window - support
>but without ANY other GUI support from that area - neither @say get nor menu <g>.
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>from current versions support for
>local,
>candidate keys,
>table/cdx-functions like key(), ataginfo, afields()
>declare DLL,
>the empty class (with scatter/gather name)
>one class like custom for OOP programming paradigma
>perhaps more current string and array functions (alines was the first thing I backported to FPW <g>)
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>The next step could be a "business layer compatible" level, with support for eventbinding, timers, collections, datasession, SOAP, DBC, all other SQL commands and so on: everything NON-GUI.
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>The last step would be a GUI-enabled version - after that enhancements will be asked for.
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>Probably the priorities of others will be different <bg>, but such a stepwise implementation should make sense to everybody creating layered apps and a similar approach could perhaps get some funding back to ET...
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>my 0.02 EUR
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>thomas
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