>I've been having lots of problems with VFP not properly saving designer files: VCXs and SCXs, but it's usually more obvious as NOTHING saves - CTRL-W, designer closes but changes are not saved. On next open all changes are lost.
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>I'm really weary of visual classes these days - using double saves with Ctrl-S and only then closing classes. Sucks.

Over the past number of years I have developed replacement editors for SCX, VCX, MNU, and PRG. The SCX and VCX do not yet have a visual layout editor completed (this is in development); however, full property and method editing is complete. These editors are based on a ActiveX editor component CodeMax (I have complete source) for the code editing and fully supports intellisense, code completion, etc.

I would be curious if you would like to try these editors -- particularly the VCX editor (it is the last to be developed and shares a common codebase with the SCX editor). They run as an APP within the VFP development environment (they use some commands that are not available in the run-time).

One of the benefits of these editors is that all source code is available so that they can be further developed (unlike VFP).