Anybody ever implemented a portability wrapper for VFP? I mean create a class, say _VFP, that contains methods that correspond to every (most?) VFP command/function.

So, instead of writing
cText = LEFT("abc", 2)

you would write
cText = _VFP.Left("abc", 2)


I can't count the number of times that such a layer would have saved me from having to go back and rework some code. Example: for internationalization issues I want all my LEFTs to be LEFTCs. With the wrapper, I could implement the Left() method to call LEFTC and not touch my code. I could change all my _VFP.MessageBox(...) calls to actually be implemented as a MsgSvc() call or whatever.

I don't know the performance issues involved, but there certainly seem to be some merits to doing this.


Bob