>>the idea is that even if the code is in plain view it would be extremely difficult for someone to read it.
I'd still check out VFP Compiler because if you turn on debug mode, you get to see the obfuscated procs and could just use them as-is. There are other obfuscation tools but unless they're actively maintained, you risk a glitch-fest. Chen's obfuscation copes even with the huge VFPX libraries and has been continuously refined since 2010.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
