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28/05/1997 17:01:48
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Classes - VCX
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00033281
Message ID:
00034212
Views:
52
> > > >We can have Behaviors to modify only the Click method, only MouseMove > > method, etc. Or Behaviors to modify security rights/levels. Or anything > > else we can imagine. And we can play with them as we want at RUNTIME. > > > > I fail to see at this stage why I would want to 'modify' these > > methods, and at runtime, meaning that the response to an event > > would be different depending on a particular state of the program. > > Interesting, but not high on my list of priorities (the dyno in me > > probably! :)). > > Well, the security reasons might urge you to have different behaviors > for the same class of objects, depending on user level. Sounds like a > pretty neat idea to me; having observed some discipline while using it > we might obtain nice things on existing apps by just adding some > behavior properties to existing forms. Sure. But I (again the dino in me probably) have the feeling that this sofistication comes with a price: your systems will be harder to maintain, and less robust. > The side effect is that we've made the full circle: after thirty years, > we get back to the program capable of modifying itself on the run :> >)

If things have the tendency to go your way, do not worry. It won't last. Jules Renard.
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