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>However, I don't think that this feature is critical enough to force someone to drop the whole product, though anyone trying to use VFP should get attitude not to believe much in manual help, unless tested in real application.
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Hi Ed,

I am talking about FIRST-TIME user who is trying it out.
When you consider these, along with WAITs for 5ms to get other things to work as documented/expected and even the wiggle the mouse when using OLE stuff, turns out that a lot of VFP is subject to idiosynchrocies. Oddities which no one not "in the know" would even dream of trying to work around a problem. So they rack it up to "too complicated for me" or "doesn't work like it should" and they move on to other products.

Cheers,

Jim N