>I know ways of doing it, and can get around just fine. I just prefer having a file I can edit directly. Its nice to be able to see everything at once. Its nice to be able to make a change without having to jump through hoops. Its nice if you want to use some other editor besides VFP's. Its nice if you want to be able to merge code between forms. If you see no use in it, fine, but for me I think it would be a *much* better way of dealing with code.

Well, I'm not saying I wouldn't use it, it could be a big plus. But it may be extremely difficult, else they might well've done it by now in vfp...what you're talking about reminds me a lot of the old .spr files, you could edit "object" code, then just build the spx and voila, the runtime is updated. Of course, the original screen files weren't updated, so that wasn't all that helpful :)

One thing I do as you're saying is with views. I very seldom use the designer, just make a prg from gendbc code for every view and then update views progammatically...and you can do that with an entire database, of course...