Pardon me for changing the subject, but I wanted to say thanks for sending some of the leftover SW Fox swag via Dave Bernard to us here at the Atlanta FoxPro Users Group. It always helps attendance to have some good giveaways and we appreciate it.

>>I keep seeing reason NOT to upgrade. What are the big reasons to go from VFP8 to VFP9? I'm talking about day-to-day stuff. The things that really matter.
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>You probably already know about the Report Designer improvements. There are also a lot of improvements to the SQL language, making it possible to do a lot more with a single query.
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>I consider MemberData a big deal. It gives you, among other things, the ability to have your custom properties and methods, capitalized the way you want them.
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>Another that I use every day is the ability to substitute your own responses to menu items. In particular, I use the improved New Property/Method dialog written by Doug Hennig that comes as a sample.
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>I consider anchoring a big win, too. When I need resizable forms, I can determine their behavior without (much) special code.
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>The other item I use a lot is the CAST() function that lets me change data types on the fly.
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>I'm sure others will have other things they use all the time.
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>Tamar