>>>And it was right under my nose - in the June UThread Mag - gonna have to give up beer or VFP programming - both can be pretty hard on the brain cells.
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>>I read Robert Peirce article with a great interest, is it the one you're referring to? I still haven't time to finish reading of Vlad's article, but I printed it and hopefully will read tomorrow in a train.
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>That was the one I was looking for. In '90 ( a loooong time ago) my first data-driven code was a menu for a multiuser system that dynamically built the menu related to the security level of the login user. I even wrote a short article for what was FAdvisor in those pre-newsgroup days. So I'm always attracted to data-driven solutions (especially when they help with the nastiness of designing grids - changing the recordsource of couple of columns because of a client request can be a headache - it's one time I'm happy to dig thru lines of code rather than do it by WYSIWYG)

Oops, going back and forth I lost what I already typed, so I repeat briefly...

We have bunch of things data-driven. For instance, validation is data-driven (all methods are stored in a table, etc.) We have two ways of setting filter in our baseform class. One of them is generic, where user should type filter expression. It's not convenient for "middle" user. The other way is table-driven, so each application can set a bunch of specific filters in a table perfectly written in English.

We also have several complicated applications, which use idea of Meta-Files. You can read about it at http://www.ideaxchg.com/ix07/cm/_sys/toccontu.htm#tasklist (that's why I was going back and forth :)) and all related pages.

BTW, I read Vlad's article today. I'll send my opinion in private to Vlad.