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Star Trek and VFP6
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30/09/1998 16:46:35
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Visual FoxPro
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>Since this is September 30, I guess this will be my last frivolous post...but.....
>
>I was thinking that in VFP6, with Access events, we trekkies can now have Mr. Spock at our sides during application development.
>
>Create a new custom class named "Vulcan".
>Create a property called "Opinion". Default it to blank.
>Create a collection (array property) called "Favorites".
>Create a method called "Opinion_Access".
>
>In the Init of the class, fill the Favorites collection with as many Spock-isms as you can recall; ie, "Fascinating","Highly Logical", etc...
>
>In the Opinion_Access method put a RANDOM and randomly set the property of Opinion to one of the Favorites collection entry.
>
>Then, you can do the following from the Command Window:
>
>Spock=CREATEOBJECT("Vulcan")
>?Spock.Opinion
>
>(A Spock saying is randomly returned) Cool, huh?

I don't think this is frivolous. This is a fun example of how to utilize new features. This is much more likely to be experimented with by beginners, etc., than some dry, abstract example.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA
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