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Toledo Wish List review
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Toledo Wish List review
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I have finished a "review" of the Toledo Wish List items and content as it stood at September 29, 2002.
Right off the bat I must say that I know I skipped at least a few. My review included 822 entries.

I will present some numbers that are somewhat arbitrary, caused by the following problems:
1) "Area" and "Sub Area" are often not specified by the originator;
2) "Area" and "Sub Area" are often confusing because of both near-duplications and because of perception differences.
--- For instance, most of us interpret "Performance" as relating to processing speed, but some see it as 'how it performs' (compared to spec).
3) "Area" and "Sub Area" are missing for some key categories.
4) Many items list several wishes and I had to choose one (the first) for categorization purposes.
5) Many wishes (39) were to fix known bugs/problems and these have been included here.
For the above reasons I generally adopted my own categorizations but did keep the essence of the original intent.
AREA            Count
API               1
COM               5
Classes         185
Data            101
Debugging        23
Designers        95
Editor           65
Help              3
IDE              71
Language        207
Performance       1
Unknown           2
xBase            63
Notes regarding the above:
a) COM included most anything mentioning COM.
b) I added many subareas to area "Classes".
c) Area "Data" subarea "Engine" includes most anything that doesn't fit elsewhere, like long names in free tables, multi-threading, indexing stuff, ActiveX support, source encryption, etc.
d) I added subarea "SQL" to area "Data" to refer to VFP SQL specifically.
e) Area "Designers" was used when a designer was specifically mentioned. Many that may have gone here were put into "Editor" or "Language" based on their content (as interpreted by me)
f) Area "Editor" has items that sounded applicable generally to its UI but might also have been applicable to a specific subarea of area "IDE".
g) Area "IDE" had subarea "Project Manager" added to it.
h) Area "Language" had several subareas added to it: Enhanced Command; Enhanced Function; New Command; New Function; New Operator; New SysVar.
--- When a wish named a specific command or function that applied to application execution then it was included in this area.
i) Area "Unknown" was added by me when an item was too unclear to even guess at.
Area "xBase" subarea "Other" was used for lots of 'general' things like WinCE version, VSS integration, XP compliance, etc.

A more detailed breakdown is shown below:
AREA		Subarea		Count
API		SDK Samples	        1
COM		Debugging	        1
 		Interfaces	        1
Classes	All Controls	       41
		Column		        1
		ComboBox	        7
		CommandButton	  6
		Container		  8
		Custom		        2
		EditBox		  5
		Form		       10
		Grid		       48
		Image	       	  5
		Label		        3
		Line		        1
		ListBox		  6
		New Control	       12
		OLEBoundControl	  2
		OLEControl	        2
		OptionButton	        3
		PEMs		        1
		Page		        2
		PageFrame	        6
		Session		  3
		TextBox		  8
		ToolBar		  3
Data		DBC Events	        1
		Engine		       80
		OLE DB		        1
		SQL		       19
Debugging	Call Stack		  1
		Error Messages	  3
		Locals		        1
		Output		        3
		Trace		       12
		Watch		        3
Designers	Class		        7
		Form		       22
		Menu		       18
		Query		        1
		Report		       32
		Table		        2
		View		       13
Editor		Intellisense	       11
		Syntax Coloring	  3
		UI		       51
Help		Content		  3
IDE		Command Window	  4
		Designers	       10
		Dialogs		  7
		Doc View		  7
		Docking		  2
		Find		        2
		Project Manager	 23
		Prop. Sheet	       11
		ToolBars		  2
Language	Enhance Command    100
		Enhance Function 	 29
		New Command	       25
		New Function	       33
		New Operator	        8
		New SysVar	        1
		Objects		  2
		Obsolete		  1
Performance	Engine		        1
Unknown		Unclear	  2
xBase		Beautify		  2
		Builders		  5
		Class Browser	  2
		Coverage Profiler	  1
		Object Browser	  1
		Other		       45
		Samples		  3
		Task List		  1
		Tools		        2
		Wizards		  1
I will, in another message tomorrow, make suggestions to improve the UT's wish list handling for VFP9.
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