>Ah, it warms my heart. My director (at my day job) called my into his office for a favour. He wants me to help him learn Visual FoxPro so he can rewrite his wife's Block Parent clipper app. Life is good. :-)

Jim Duffy has a really stripped-down free framework on his site at www.takenote.com. It's about the right degree of complexity for that type of app and will give your boss an idea of how an entire app works.

Framework is downloadable from http://www.takenote.com/downloads.htm .