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>Hospital System 8 is much more attractive and usable than Hospital System 7, which is essentially a grid app that could have been written in VFP3 fifteen years ago. In 2010, the more contemporary appearance is available by drag-and-dropping classes from VFPx. Or you can use Etecnologia's VFP Extender to use latest NET controls on your VFP form.
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>But it is a trickshot. Some here will remember creating our own 3D textboxes and tabbed interfaces in FP2.6. People like Ken Levy made a reputation creating classes to automate this. And then VFP3 came along and wiped all that out on the spot. There won't be another VFP so the thing that wipes it out on the spot is going to have to come from outside.

Usability is a tricky thing. Version 7 displays a grid where much more patients are visible at a glance. As outlined by Alan Cooper in his excelent book "About Face", in expert systems, it is not so much important of how sexy an app looks, but more about how snappy and usable it is by providing de information and functionality in a few keystokes or mouseclicks. A sexy app, might sell you a system, but it tell basically nothing about the usability.