>>>Mark:
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>> Yes, there is learning curve, but then there is with every framework. It depends on the amount of time you the user want to invest. There is NO plug-in that I know of, if someone finds one let me know ...
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>>Haydn,
>>I had the good fortune, a couple of years ago, to become acquainted with VPM when a former client asked me to help in the conversion of an app they had purchased (from VPM5 to VPM6) and the training of their programmer in both VFP and VPM. I found the 'learning curve' for VPM to be very shallow. After 15 years I had retired my business so I could work locally and come home at nights and weekends. But, if I ever restart my consulting business VPM will be my tool of choice on the WinXX platform. (On the Linux platform it is KDE+KDevelop+QT3+PostgreSQL)
>>JLK
>Jerry,
>
>take a look at BlackAdder (TheKompany.com) for Linux, using PyQT. They now use QT3. Very nice. Nothing like what we have in VFP/VPM, but very nice.
>
>Hank

I've been following BlackAdder. QT3 and their data-aware widgets are very, very nice. At the rate development is taking place in the Linux community I don't imagine it will take too long before QT3 PEM interface have all the sophistication and functionality of VFP PEM interface. Considering QT employs the signal-slot technology (which requries a meta compiler to preceed the gcc) there are features about QT that surpass VFP controls. But, on the WinXX platform, VFP is far and away the best GUI RAD dev tool on the planet, and VMP is the best framework, IMO.
jlk

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