>Not really! Ed Leafe has a new job and has been busy with that. But he is still answering questions and fixing minor issues with the framework. Ed suggests that he'll be back coding the IDE in the very near future. If the ClassDesigner had user designed classes then I think I would use it.
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>I don't use the ClassDesigner.py (the UI developer tool). I have have found that hand coding the UI is very easy for me and allows much more flexibility. A friend and I decided to code a screen in VFP and Dabo to see just how long it really took. On simple screens/forms he won hands down. I took me at least 10 more minutes. But on complex ones I actually won several times. This is because I'm using cut and paste most of the time. After all a textbox is a textbox. In VFP you have to type in the datasource and the same has to be done in Dabo. So adding five textboxes is very easy. Type the first in and four cut and pastes.
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>Although in the end I'd say he was faster. But remember I got dynamic sizing of the form and controls and he did not.
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>Johnf


Thanks for the update and the comparison.