>What's the functional difference between a form and a class based form?
>
>I have seen code like the following enough times to wonder: Why not Do Form ???
>

release _oAnchorEditor
>public _oAnchorEditor
>_oAnchorEditor = newobject('AnchorEditor', 'AnchorEditor.vcx')
>if vartype(_oAnchorEditor) = 'O'
>	_oAnchorEditor.Show()
>else
>	release _oAnchorEditor
>endif vartype(_oAnchorEditor) = 'O'

>
>Thanks

One of the most difference is this:
a form class property it is evaluated the first time only,
a form scx property it is evaluated every time the scx is created.

PUBLIC x,y
x = CREATEOBJECT("formvcx")
x.visible = .T.
CHRSAW(10)
y = CREATEOBJECT("formvcx") && after 10 seconds y return x.datetime
y.visible = .T.

DEFINE CLASS formvcx AS form

	opentime = (DATETIME())
	
	ADD OBJECT text1 AS textbox WITH ;
		Alignment = 3, ;
		Value = (m.THISFORM.opentime), ;
		Height = 23, ;
		Left = 36, ;
		Top = 36, ;
		Width = 204, ;
		Name = "Text1"

ENDDEFINE

if you create the same example with a scx, the datetime it is the time when the scx is created.

Result: into a VCX form you cannot to put a dynamic property into the class properties.
( this is that to do the scx loader )