Hi Francois,

how much have you used Oracle? If you thought MS was slow getting patches out, or in innovating... (Do you remember, just a few years ago, when Oracle didn't have SQL-92 style joins?)

The good news is that VFP is alive in .NET (http://www.etecnologia.net). And by alive, I don't mean simply that it compiles to .Net (it's still in alpha, i.e., features are still being implemented), but that the language is being extended in ways that many of us have wanted for a long time. Things like being able to hook events on properties of a cursor object (IOW, whenever a field value changes, for example).

I like Python. It is one of the 3 o4 4 official Google development languages. Likewise for Yahoo and NASA. And the Dabo project (dabodev.com, which seems to be down) is cool, now doing Web apps, although I can't stand to develop forms in WxPython. But even given everything they have done, it's still not VFP. And having first-class status in .Net (something IronPython does not have) does open up a lot of doors.

thus my .02 USD, which I realize isn't worth nearly as much as .02 EUR, but it's what I've got. <s>

Hank

>Hi Al,
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>>Are you running with the latest VFP9 hotfix installed? If so, VERSION() should report 09.00.0000.7423
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>no plain SP2 and a bit reluctant to do it in absence of a documented list of corrections. I have changed the code base, setting all transparent widgets back to VFP "opaque" default*. No big stuff. It does the trick. But I REALLY do not like this kind of manoeuvring ...
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>The way they - MS - let VFP die is one more reason to move to "open source" (my take is the VFP-like python). There will be no return. MS is really trying to kill themselves. They are not alone. Oracle is way better at this game :)