>Hi everybody,
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>I guess I was trying to solve lots of someone's else problems because I'm not sure how to better proceed with my task...
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>I've sort of inherited some applications of my late colleague. He used over-complicated design for lots of things and it's very hard to follow. I somehow try to follow his footsteps, but I think I'm meeting a dead end.
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>For my own application I've adapted ideas from him and another colleague, created a little framework, created cursor addapter classes, etc.
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>But now I just need to add a new quite simple form to the existing application and I feel myself lost, since I can not bring my own way of doing things into it and the current way is too complex for me...
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>I guess I need a bit of consolation and encouragment to embrace the task...
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>Or may be I need to find a better and simpler form to try to use as a template.

Need a shoulder to cry on?

We've all been there, and you were too. Everything else can be done with not too much trouble, but creating the first form in a new framework is an exercise in frustration - but a great pleasure once you get it working. I think I've been through this about once every 17 months for the last 8 years, and it still doesn't get any easier.

My estimate is that you'll have to read about five times more code than you'll need to write :).

How's this for comforting, eh?