>Has anyone done this?
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>I am wanting to build forms on the fly based on information in tables. There would also be a form manager that would be used to maintain the form data, such as label name, control type, validation, location, etc.
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>Any ideas on this? Is there a third party product that does this.
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>Anthony Virgil

I've done this two ways recently:-

1) The form definitions can change at run-time, so the form must be generated each time it is used. You can write some code that build the form dymanically. Start wit a CREATEOBJECT() to create the form, then use the AddObject method to add the textBoxes, labels etc. The only drawback here can be that the process can take some time, giving a delay before the user sees the form.

2) The form definitions are set before the application is distributed, but do not change at run-time. It can be useful to auto-generate your forms where you will have many complex screens that would just take too long to hand build. For this situation use a program that will write another .PRG containing the class definitions for all the forms (DEFINE CLASS... ENDDEFINE).