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>>>>No, that is not correct. I am sure there are others development platforms which I am not aware of but certainly WinDev does everything that VFP does, better than VFP in almost all cases, and then x100 more things ... easily. And, it is does them in a very similar way - so much so that I believe the roots of both products were all probably the same xBase model. Any claim VFP had to being unique has not been valid for very many years, certainly since the last 10+ releases of WinDev which would be back to version 10 or 12 or so ... at least.
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>>>>Disclaimer: Not promoting WInDev - I have zero interest in that. Just stating the facts. I imagine there are other dev tools as well but cannot know them all of course.
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>>>Jos, after reading so manu good comments by you, a couple of years ago I bought WinDev/WevDev/WinMobile and I developed one application... and it was a nightmare... I will not use it again and the sole application I developed I wish I could write it again in other language. Now I forgot all the problems, but the project will get CONSTANTLY corrupted, which forced me to bring the one in the source control several times a week! Also among other issues (granted, many were probably because I was learning) but I have this combo box control that will randomly crash over and over again, took me forever to realize that if I changed the type from "Loaded in memory" to "Direct Access" then it would work without issue, but I lost a couple of weeks trying to figure it out, as I thought the problem was my query, but I found very weak that the whole IDE would crash like that.
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>>>Too bad for I like all the features it has.
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>>That is too bad. Personally we dont have any problems to speak of and have developed reasonably extensive systems containing reports, grids, charts, multiple window interface, makes use of encryption, http/ftp comms., compression, multiple users, multi-threading, etc. etc. On occasion the IDE might fail but when we reload the project it just re-compiles and carries on. On end-user sites / run-time we never have issues other than our own bugs. We have been doing this since about version 15 and we are now on version 23. We love it to be honest. I also know of other companies that have developed vastly larger systems than we have containing hundreds of dialogs, hundreds of reports, etc. and they seem to be happy with it. But I guess maybe there were other factors at play ... who knows. Sorry to hear of your issues with it.
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>Thanks Jos. I know it is probably something in our environment that it did not like but it was very frustrating (on their defense I might say I never contact them) but I was doing very simple things like creating a project, working on it without problem for a time, then opening it and puff! project corrupted.. ok bring it from source control using it for a couple of hours then build the executable, bam! crash. Opening the project, No! corrupted again... This was with WinDev 21.


Strange. The only thing I can think of when I try and recall anything similar being mentioned in the forums was to make sure AV does not scan the project folder or the WinDev folder itself. I dont do this myself with my AV but I have seen suggestions to that effect when people had corrupted projects.

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