>Right. Sometimes it's just easier if you can look at a program file. It wouldn't be very difficult to pull all of the procedures from a VCX or SCX file and then edit them and push them back into the appropriate file, but it isn't very automated. You would have to make sure that you always remembered to put it back when you were done, which could lead to problems. I guess it is a fundamental design difference between something like Delphi and VFP. Delphi just stores everything in a text file and parses it, while VFP stores it in a table.

I think maybe a basic problem with this sort of interface lies within OOP itself. Suppose you have an scx with a number of vcx classes dropped on it. How do you go about setting up an interface with updateable code all in one place, without an awful lot of extra definitions? And even suppose you did, and updated classes from this, how would that affect other similar files with the same class code? How would they all be updated? How does Delphi handle this?