Bob;

That’s not dating yourself! I remember Howdy Doody and Milton Berle (Uncle Miltie) on television, to name a few. That makes me prehistoric. :)

Tom


>Am I dating myself? Actually, I think I watched Kung Fu in repeats when I was a kid. The master would call his student "grasshopper."
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>BOb
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>>>>We are looking for a simple, easy-to-learn framework that will allow us the flexibility of using either free tables and/or a DBC. What we are really looking for is a framework that will provide a headstart on data entry forms so we don't have to roll our own. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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>>>Bam... this is a question to which you will get many answers. Only because there are so many frameworks.
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>>>However, my input to this will be, whatever framework you buy (or get for free) will require an investment in time. All of them, that I know of, give you source and have hooks and methods to modify them. Some make this easier than others. I know that VFE and Mere Mortals are very modular and use factory classes and other ideas to allow you to modify default behavior to your liking. VPM is more strict and harder to bend to your methods, at least the last version I looked at was this way.
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>>>Also, some frameworks, that may be a bit more difficult upfront, will provide more flexibility. Finally, some that may be more complex, also have training, books, and training CD's which will make learning them easier than perhaps a more simple framework that provides just a manual.
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>>>As someone said, the FFC framework is not bad, however it is badly documented, although the doc for it is a bit better in 7.0. Two books in the Hentzenwerke Essentials somewhat document the FFC clases, one is Marcus's book and I think Essential Design also has some of these documented.
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>>>I wish you well in your search grasshopper.
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>>>BOb
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>>Grasshopper?