Daniel,

It has been mentioned that autoincrement has always been one of the top if not THE top requested item for the developers. Without regard to your other good suggestions it seems that it's been a major deal from the pov of most other developers.

Perhaps you don't have the need but just taking your needs may not be enough of a statistical sample to get the whole picture..


>>> Sacarsm aside, you may have a need for a native AutoIncrement function
>>> but my friends and I certainly don't.
>> That's nice. I don't plan to use it, either, because I have an alternative
>> in place, but I can surely tell you I _would_ have used it in the
>> beginning if it had been available, and one does hold out hope that VFP
>> will always be gaining new developers who might appreciate the feature.
>> As for major...yes, it is. It's been a constantly requested feature ever
>> since I've been in the community and it's one of the most frequently asked
>> questions on newsgroups when people are coming to VFP from other backends
>> that support it.
>
>I would define a major feature to be a feature that is useful to the
>majority of the developers using a product. AutoIncrement doesn't fit the
>bill IMO.
>
>
>>> In my opinion, saying it's a major feature is almost equivalent to saying
>>> that we won't get anything really useful in the next version.
>> Every new version of VFP has been previewed a bit at a time. VFP 7 started
>> out with just Intellisense, If I remember correctly. It seems MS is damned
>> if they do show teasers ("Is that all there is?") and damned if they don't
>> ("Oh, no! VFP 7.0 is the last version!").
>
>My point were:
>1. AutoIncrement is a minor feature.
>2. The vastt majority of the potential purchasers of VFP8 (us developers)
>already own a prior version of the product
>3. Most developers have an alternative to AutoIncrement.
>I for one do not typically upgrade a product unless it allows me to do some
>things I couldn't do before.
>
>I expect to see much more useful features as we get closer to the launch date.
>
>
>> If you have a feature you would find helpful, please make a request. But
>> just because you don't care about it, doesn't mean someone else doesn't.
>
>I suggested overloading and the friend keyword years ago.
>
>Daniel