Hello dear Foxpro fans I would greatly appreciate all the help and guidance in converting applications developed in fpd26 to VFP5. I know many of u prefer rewriting the applications using the new VFP way of development. I unerstand that very well. It is the best way to do it. Especially if it is a brand new project and u have the expireince. But in my circumstances time is a factor as these applications have been written over eight years and are very modularised like an accounting system where the modules are interdependant. Changes in one module affect the working of another module. The applications are very stable and are of a very high standard in my opinion. To rewrite these applications will take more than year aside from passing the VFP learning hurdle. The other factor is that ongoing development and maintaince is very high in the current fpd26 meaning that changes in the FPD26 must also be done to the new devlopment as well. Keeping two versions of this product is a sure failure due to the high business changes in the applications as the products keep changing. With the above in mind we feel we must firstly cross over to VFP through a functional conversion and then fix/patch/improve functions that do not work as desired in VFP. By this I mean change functions to use the windows/vfp ways were possible like Windows printer selection, Windows message boxes, fix fonts sizes, pictures sizes, screen fields lenths, and anything that does not work poperly as intended or to just improve speed where possible. But in way without changing the functionality of the application and keeping the inter modular dependance. Now we need help on ways of fixing things like this to make it easier. We have already written functions to open the SCX files etc to fix things automatically. IT is a slow process of learning and discovering. We need fast tips to save us the hassle. We seem to be getting there but very slowly. We just need more help on how to change objects on the screen to be based on our own classes etc etc any thing to ease the conversion process. I am sure many of u folks have been there. Please help!!! Once this is stable in VFP we can then stop DOS FPD26 development and continue in VFP with a gradual migrating of apps towards the VFP way of doings things, building on the VFP experience. In time we will rewrite all new apps using object orientation with VFP data dictionery and SQL server. Here's we we are coming from and would like to inherit as much as possible. Our FPD26 applications, I think are fairly modularised with fairly high standards inherited from the foxpro community of resources over the years together with our inhouse experience. We have various utilities and functions that make the system very consistant and robust and are busy trying to optimise these in VFP. Examples: 1. A Report Writing function is called for all reporting with the user having the option to. Modifying the report template Create New templates Selection a printer for output To print to AScii file for Preview or RePrinting Later Change order of report Export Data Change filter or for clause Link in other tables, etc 2. All tables are opened via a function that looks up a special table for a path. There are not hardcoding of paths. The applications work with an hot key to work on differnet data sets ( for different companies) or test site. We plan on using VFP data Dictionery the moment we stop using FPD26. All paths to FRX, Temp Directorys etc are soft coded. 3. All Enquiry/Update are developed using the scatter/gather concept with two screens. One for update and one for enquiry. These screens have a srandard VCR type buttons for navigation, locating records, incremetal browse searches, locating keys Standard routines exist for saving records with file and record locking takeing care of for multiuser environments with build in functions to maintain intergrity checks when deleting records in master tables, etc, etc Now there are so many new ways to do this in VFP but what should I do without having to do much rewrite. Is there a framework availble for me to use? I need some samples. 4. We use standard error trapping proedure with error login. 5. A standard generic letter mail merge module exists for customisation for any set of tables to print customised letters and labels. In VFP we would like to use WORD OLE. but that requires us having a license for every workstations? Is there other ways? etc 6. Our apps work for multi users, multi sites, multi currency and would like it to become multi objects with help from the multi foxpro developers out there!!!! All help or suggestions will be appreciated Regards Gan