Steve,
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>>Sure.. Did you ever hear of a product named
"Force" ? It came out originally sometime in the late 80's but required that everything be declared up front, hence the inability to deal with macro substitution commands. It was
really really fast even compared with FoxBase+, which even then was Speed King. Just no macro subs. If you had the ability to flip some sort of switch and were willing to take the hit on having no macro subs then I'd think that would be a fair tradeoff. If you could then the next question would be to determine whether or not there were enough speed benefits to make the effort worthwhile. That seems to me to be an unknown at this point I'd suppose...
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>hehe...as a matter of fact, I have. I have a couple of Force apps still out there. This evening I am making mods to one of them; I hope to port the app to VFP this summer.
No way! Really??
Geeze.. And here I thought I was one of the only ones around here who had used it - but to find someone still using it.. Amazing. What version are you using? I don't even think I could find my Force disks anymore...
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>Force is *incredibly* fast. I have wondered if anybody around here has ever used it, I don't even know where to go if I were to need any help with it. I am usually able to work around any issues that I have.
Incredibly fast isn't the word. I have
never seen anything faster. You just cannot do some of the 'trick' stugg but as I said, if you don[t need it then why not. Well, that and it's still a DOS application.
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>Macro subs would not be the only issue in VFP. Everytime a SQL statement is given to a listbox (or whatever) as a recordSource, it might be an issue. I suppose there could be a runtime element built into the exe that handles these sorts of issues (ala Clipper...it had a runtime engine built into the exe).
Sure, but if you could figure out a way to run everything from tables..... *sigh*
Best,
DD
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