>Agreed 110%. I wasted almost a year trying to convert a FPD2.6 app to VFP. At last I realized I was only wasting my time, and started from scratch with "real" VFP, using OOP and forms. After three months of real fun and learning a lot of valuable stuff, I fisished a much more modern and advanced application with a lot of features which I could only dream of with FPD. After that experience I deleted FPD from my PC, and never regretted it.

I actually wrote a converter, but the point is that you need a target framework into which to convert. The converter which comes with VFP is useless, you don't get real textboxes etc, you get Read emulation. Mine does create real objects, gets the code converted - but then every FPD app (and/or framework) has its idiosyncrasies, so it basically converts my old FPD framework into what framework I have now. The more important point is that I don't have any usable FPD apps which would make it worth my while. IOW, I didn't have a good reason to do it for real. I got a few forms converted, with snippets converted (I was using m.vars as a buffer) from one test app from a dozen years ago, and it looks OK and works... but I never finished the conversion, more because I never finished the VFP framework. There was always real work to be done :).