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VFP7 to have visual session class?
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23/11/2000 23:37:17
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
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Visual FoxPro
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>Evan,
>
>>I don't understand how this would keep the overhead down. The visual representation is just an interface, no?
>
>Classes in a visual class library take about two or more times as much memory than classes defined in a PRG.

I'm not sure I agree with this. Three of the six most light weight VFP classes are visually editable (CommandGroup, OptionGroup and Line). In fact, from my tests, a Custom class created in the Class Desiger visually is lighter weight than the same thing defined in PRG code.

>In fact, from a confort point of view classlibaries (VCX) are better than PRGs. From a conservative space point of view PRGs are far better than classlibaries (especially when your classes contain large amounts of comments)
>
>I suspect, that because of that the sessionclass was ment to be lightweigth (more ligthweigth than a form) you want to have this one in a PRG only. I don't know if agree to this standpoint, but I think this might be the reason.
>
Larry Miller
MCSD
LWMiller3@verizon.net

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