>I recently started using VPM, and was surprised that they don't implement an edit mode by default, they recently added some functionality to do so, but it's not fully supported, in their documentation they say that having forms always in edit mode was a more common practice since VFP came along.
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>I've always used an edit mode, and prefered it, because it's harder to mess things up this way, so I was surprised to hear that this was an "uncommon" practice ... what do you all think?, do you use an edit mode?

This is the Windows way of doing things and is actually the preferred method according to Windows Guidelines. My framework works this way and users have actually preferred it.