>>Working with this made me rediscover the power of OOP. The idea is you can use OOP across applications by just creating the object. Forget droping a control on you form. This really allows you tremendous flexiblity. I think the developer studio may be going this way. If we could define object properties and methods in other applications as well it would be really powerful.
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>>this is ActiveX
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>Yes and no. Active X (as I understand it) are controls (created in C ??) that are used as objects with properties and methods etc. What I'm talking about is tying objects from different applications together by simply referencing them with their appropriate methods, properties, etc.
>Not just a control, but any part of a whole application. For example adding teleconferencing to your VFP application by simply creating a object from the teleconferancing application and then manipulating it by reference. With the breadth of VFP functions/features I often get in the
>mindset of doing things the VFP way when other applications can do that
>task better. Across application object referencing really should open doors to make VFP applications even more powerful.
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>Am I explaining myself ok?
yes (I think)
and again the answer is this is ActiveX technology

what u mention here are exactly the 2 aspects of ActiveX
1. ActiveX controls (created in C/VB 5.0 etc.)
2. ActiveX servers (VFP/MSIE/VB/WORD etc. etc. etc.)

Arnon