I find it is much more work to write a form in a PRG, instead of using the visual designer. I believe it is not worthwhile.
Now, there are cases where you can do things in code that are difficult in the visual designer. Fortunately, these cases are becoming more and more scarce; the main problem I have seen is in the menu designer. Keeping it in a PRG allows me to use variables for keyboard shortcuts, for instance, and I think this is not possible in the original menu (this is useful for multilingual design).
>Hi All,
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>Two years ago, I've decided to program using only code, I don't include .scx or .vcx nor .mpr files in the final project, I constuct a project with only one object-oriented .prg file (it could be more than one), and .frx and .lbx files for reports.
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>In this two years of experience, I've found several advantages to this technique. Among them I can list the following:
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>1. Total flexibility on coding
>2. Easier debugging techniques
>3. The possibility of organize the code using a "treeview & text tool" (see
www.treepad.com for example)
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>I want to know if there are other programmers using this technique, I would like to share advantages and "how's to" with disadvantages.
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>Also I wold like to receive critique to this technique.
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>Thanks
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>Enrique
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