Mike,

>>No one can judge the performance pitfals to modifiying VFP other than the people who write and test it. We can only guess.
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>We can do more than guess, we are professionals (I heard they're are some arpund here ;-) and users who pay for a product. If anybody should be making descisions, it should be the well informed public. Sometimes it seems like members of community know more about VFP than the VFP team (don't get Christof started on the VFP kernel or whatever it is he likes to talk about!).

Again, We CAN'T judge how performance would be degraded. First of all these events only fire when the program is IDLE. the CPU has nothing more to do than handle UI events. When the program is performing some action, these events would not even fire.

It's not my task to make judgements on performance of the UI for whatsoever. I simply can't judge. Maybe the VFP-team has found a very clever way to accomplish this wish (maybe by implementing JimB proposal).

If this wish was not send to MS they would never know that there are users who do have such a wish.

Personally, I'm trying to make the UI for my applications as good as possible, I really miss these features, to accomplish my goal. My wish to make coolbarbuttons like objects, has very little to do with fancyness.

The main reason I want this behaviour is to make my forms less complex and less painfull to look at. You can simply test this: Make a form with about 100 buttcons on it (buttcon is commandbutton with an icon on it) and make the same form and replace the buttcon with coolbarbuttcons (for a test a form with only the Icons on it would do). Show these forms to an avarage user and ask what form he likes to work with. I'll bet he would say the last.


Walter,