>>> your last couple of responses seem to lack common sense... perhaps I'm just not grasping where your trying to go with this.
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>>Hmmm, are you referring to the insulting thread ?
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>absolutely NOT, I was referring to the comments you made that I specifically quoted and nothing else.

ohh sorry, but, Uhhh, which comments and quotes are you referring to ???

>> I'm trying to figure out what VB has to offer to me or any other VFP programmer. JVP has repeatly said that VFP should look outside the VFP box, I like to know why.

>OK now I understand where you were going, but your opinions regarding staying entrenched in a VFP only world still seem to lack common sense to me.

This is really a wrong impression. I do use other components my favourates are:
- Crystal Reports, the best report writer I know.
- a Bunch of ActiveX classes like: The hierarchical flexgrid, Treeview, calendar, progressbar, mscomm32, a.o.
- API calls with or without the help of cristofs struct class to have more control over OS things.
- Pat boens Focus library
- C/C++
- SQL Server, (though currently only for playing)
- Automation with MS office components.

So my application are quite up to date. I'm only having trouble here to imagine how an extra development tool like VB could help me to even significantly enhance my applications even more.... Working with all these components has a serious drawback in maintainability though, i've been more than once in a DLL - hell.

Walter,

>Perhaps it's just the different job markets we are in.

I'm quite sure this plays an important role.

>Your opinions are you own of course, as are mine, so I wont waste any more of your time with this discussion since I dont see any relevance in not being wise enough to learn more than one tool.

I hope I made myself clear enough.

Walter,