Craig,

I don't like Delphi's OOP implementation as well. I miss a lot of things that are much easier in VFP. However, they also have quite a few things that are nice as well. I don't like the IDE as well for viewing code verses forms. I can see lots of cross overs between VFP and Delphi in many areas. It always keeps me thinking who saw or played with who's software at both of the development teams.

Their Menu Builder is completely OOP and it supports Owner Draw capabilities and can display icons in the menus. Actually I got Delphi V4.0 2 weeks ago and that's when I went head first into it. I bought Delphi 3.0 about a year and a half ago when I finally had reached a breaking point with VFP and all of the problems with the product keeping me from shipping stable commercial products. But I got it for the ease of which I can build ActiveX controls. I built a RichText box in about 5 minutes from some FreeWare VCL source that supports Real Images within the RichText box which are sizeable in RTF using WMF format. I tried to use Microsoft's RichText ActiveX control and iert just doesn't cut it. So I basically exposed the same Properties and Events as Microsoft's but in my own control so I could drop it onto a form. I built it so I could build my own Help Development tool for my VFP Apps. I've been using Windows Help Designer Pro and it is very WYSIWYG but full of annoying bugs. So I thought I just write my own. It is being designed to support RTF code stored in Memo fields so you can have a Multi-User help development tool and be able to compile new Help files on any workstation while others are still editing on the project. (This way my wife can help me get my help files built!) :-)

So it works pretty well. The ActiveX controls it builds host Extremely Well in VFP and they are fast and small. In fact I built a VFP form with 5 PageFrame Pages on it and dropped the control into each of the pages. I am still making some changes to it to expose some other methods but otherwise it supports bullets and fonts and colors and such and inserting images using a MEIRichText.InsertImage(filename) method. Pretty cool!