So been busy with another application in our suite of applications and start to appreciate WinDev more and more. Quickly a few more things that I like;

1) Deleting records - records are deleted and cannot be RECALL'd. If you want to keep a copy you need to write it to another file yourself. This is easily handled with commands similar to SCATTER and GATHER. The nice thing is that you therefore never need to worry about PACK'ing since deleted records are automatically reused by WinDev. It also handles optimizing the index for you if you want it to.

2) You must have seen VFP applications (as well as others) display the Not Responding message when it gets very busy. this can be nicely worked around by running intensive processes in their own threads. I love this feature and am using it quite a lot to spawn off work in separate threads leaving my user interface responsive to the user.

3) The Analysis (the definition of the databases your app uses, the indexes of the table and the relationships between tables) is awesome. If I want to rename a field, change its type, or anything else, WinDev automatically corrects my code project wide to handle those changes. Those issues it cannot handle you can simply see in a list and manage yourself. The development IDE is truly streaks ahead of working in VFP and shows a VFP die-hard like me how far behind the curve VFP's IDE is.

4) Progress bars - just drop one on a form and you can either (a) start a process and tell it which progress bar to use :), or (b) manually set the progress bar value yourself (including negative values). As the progress bar changes it will also animate the applications task-bar tile.

Side note - 64 bit WinDev apps cannot access 32 bit DLLs. I don't know if that's all 64 bit apps (I suspect it is). So if you need to access 32 bit DLL then you need to compile the WinDev app as a 32 bit app as well.