Rick - thanks for the reply.

>What are you actually referring to here? Speed of the application or simply >the speed that the application comes up with?

It's the latter that is the main concern. The app consists of a relatively simple VFP form (no page frames) - but some dynamic controls which have to be instantiated at runtime depending on the context. I inherited most of the code - but it seems fairly well optimised already.

The data set involved is fairly small and mainly stored locally - although there is the facility to map to external data (eg excel, access, outlook, text etc) via ODBC to produce temp VFP tables - which could be large.

>For a commercial product though there are alos issues of distribution size and >installation issues of requiring support files etc. that can make a standalone >app written in Delphi nice. However, if you use data this point is moot as an >installation of Interbase or BDE will actually be bigger than VFP's runtime.

Thanks for the info.

>Lately, actually i've been using XML as my data store in other languages to >ignore the whole need for a database using the XMLDOM instead as the data >store for small to medium sized data sets.

Interesting - how does the speed compare with using BDE in Delphi ?


Thanks - again for the imput.


Anna