John,

>I agree that just because one adopts a set of tools, it does not necessarily follow that one understands anything about application development. As for what I am capable of building useful, your claim here is simply pure nonsense and nothing more than a straw man/ad hominum argument.

Then it seems we're at least talking on the same level ;-)


>>Lets look at history:

>>1. In a discussion about two years ago, you denied that the deleted() tag could be a waste of resources. I proved you wrong (with scientific examples). I'm still waiting for you to admit you were wrong. In stead you acused me that I did not know who I was talking to, and did not know much of VFP application development.


>Considering I have not used Fox data in over 3 years, I guess my first response is who cares. IAC, as a practice, I always used a deleted tag and in SQL Server, I always build a CLustered Index - none of which were to my detriment. Again, you are talking about DBF's; an obselete and antiquated technology IMO. How those items can be optimized or improved is irrelevant to me..

The issue was about DBF data. If you don't care, you should not disagree with me. I did never say it applied to SQL server, though to a certain extend it does if not using a cost base optimization strategy.

>2. You've tried to talk people into VB6 because VFP would die soon. Fact: VB 6 is dead and VFP could not be more alive than today. I've never saw you admitting you were wrong those days.

>No.. I encouraged VFP developers to learn VB as a way of augmenting their toolset. I guess you are going to say that automation is a waste of time. That requires VB. Most MS samples were written in VB; yet another reason why learning VB is/was important. Those that took the time to learn VB have been rewarded.

I don't see that. Automation is available throug VFP as easely. The only trouble might be you must be able to translate VB examples into VFP ones. This is enterely different than using a second toolbox.


>>3. I another thread we talked about a VFP 7 wishlist item of having the OnMouseEnter and OnMouseLeave functionality. You've stated that this wishlist was useless because you could easely programmed. Not only you were wrong, the wishlist items made it straight into VFP 7.

>Within the last two years, I did a search the relevant phrases and did not find a message with my name on it. That is not to say I did not say it was a waste of time. You need to supply some specific msg #'s for this claim.

Re: Wishlist: GotMousefocus, LostMouseFocus events. Thread #284473 Message #284678

Though I did name the extra events GotMousefocus and LostMouseFocus their exact functionality was written into the OnMouseEnter and OnMouseLeave events.


>What??? You don't think I talk with Ken???? On average, I speak with him once a week. And I converse with him on email. If I were doing some unethical or I was doing something to harm the VFP community or if I were making his job harder, I think he would tell me... FWIW, posts like this are not that productive because it is really about personal attacks as opposed to substantive content. Still, I thought it was important to respond to set the record straight.

I don't agree with your definition of "substantive content".

>If you think I am craving attention; which I am not, then simply ignore me and don't respond... As for the rest of the charges you lob in this paragraph, it is nothing more than the ramblings of an angry person against opinions he does not agree with...

I can't ignore you because I agree with JohnR. "You're harmfull for the VFP community and scare newbees off". Since I care about the product, I'll do my stuff to ensure you can't do too much damage here.

Walter,