>Hi, George.
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>>Interesting information about Ken and Ricardo. I've always thought, however, that the request of OO menus and reports have to be considered separately in terms of what they involve. In some ways they're similiar, in others, very different.
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>Completely agree. I don't think refactoring reports (at least just to make them OO) would be SO complex. Not necesarilly harder than Intellisense -to use Jim's measure of complexity.
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>Menus would be a different thing because they "generated", but this could be accomplished somehow. I know menus in VC++ are resources, but this is a fault, too, not a feature.
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>My main product is a suite of accounting and manufacturing applications with a dozen main modules, plus a good deal of customized modules. You can imagine how much needed are OO menus. And for many smaller shops it could be the same, I think.
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>What we do now is tho have a set of menus that compounds the final one, and some tricks using Andrew Ross MacNeill old GenMenuX.
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>But, anyway, don't they gave us forms and classes and devised a kludge to convert the old @..say screens? I think Menus are quite simple once you resolve the compatibility issue.
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>Going back to the origin of this thread, I think that if you can figure a good propossal for the VFP Team about thhis two features, may be we could convinve them a little more.
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>Can we make a draft? Is here the best place, or perhaps a wiki?

Martin,

I don't know if either is better than a well drafted document to foxwish. By "well drafted", I mean that the wish, to be the most effective, should include the business case for the wish. What does it allow us to do that we couldn't before? How does it make our work easier? I think answering those two questions in particular would be extraordinarily helpful to the foxteam. They wouldn't have to try to figure these things out for themselves. Further, citing one's own work and how it would be helpful gives them insight as to how people are using the product and could be the determining factor as to whether or not to investigate further.

Unless one was intimately familiar with VFP's internals, or the change would obviously have little or no impact on them, I'd shy away from making statements or assumptions about the ease of implementation in the wish. The foxteam can easily determine that for themselves.