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>Hi Ed,
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>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.
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>Cheers,
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>Jim N

Hi, Jim.

I don't want to say that I disagree. Nevertheless, there are no many 'simple' products around, and any profession assumes some requirements to be applied to a person willing to proceed it. Whatever we say or wish, VFP is not for first-time users, moreover programming in VFP besides general programming skills will apply some additional requirements because VFP programmer is usually working alone.