Gee,

If a minor, all beit, no brainer addition to the product can invoke this much controversy and discussion, imagine a MAJOR feature being added, like OOP menus or reports.

(No they won't be added, we have basically been told.)

BOb


>Mike,
>
>>> Is Visual FoxPro going to be a legacy application development
>>> environment... or will it attract new developers?
>
>> I suppose we'll have to wait for VFP8 before we can accurately guess that,
>> but I can tell you that VFP will not attract new developers as long as
>> enhancment requests that would breathe some new life into the product are
>> being turned down because it would step on the VFP framework vendors'
>> toes.
>
>Your comment can be construed to be offensive to both MS and the framework vendors. AFAIK, no framework vendor raised an objection to the new
>AutoIncrement feature in this forum. I raised an objection to it to be
>called a MAJOR feature because it is of very marginal, if any, value to
>the developers I have worked with. This new MINOR feature will not
>influence my decision whether to upgrade or not.
>
>Daniel