>>Is this another way of saying the visual side of it still won't work?
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>I'm not sure what you are asking. The View Designer will be ehnanced in many areas for VFP 8.0, not just what I mentioned.

From the keynote speech it sounded as if the only addition was modifiable sql. That made it seem like the view designer wouldn't really be fixed (we all know the problems) but the modifiable sql would give a work-around to coding the whole view by hand. (or using a third party tool)