George, Erik,
>>>>- Callbacks and increased COM support.
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>>>Highly doubtful on the former. VFP's internal memory management currently prohibits it. I don't know how big a deal it would be to re-write, but the guess here is major.
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>>I cornered Calvin about this in Miami, and he surprised me on the subject. He said that the memory management would not be a roadblock to implementing native CallBacks in VFP (that maybe it would have been in the past, but things have changed).
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>I'm quite surprised (and happy) to hear this. Maybe things have changed, or maybe simply I presumed too much. IAC, it does mean that perhaps in the future...
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>>I'm afraid that I failed to convince him, though, that it would be a good feature to have.
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>Maybe in the future we can "make him an offer he can't refuse".< bg > Seriously, it would be nice to have. How many of us would take advantage of it, is quite another matter.
Given the incremental nature of the additions to VFP I wouldn't be surprised to see this in a future version - unless marketing feels that VB would be threatened. <g>
Best,
DD
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