>>>>>C/S = Client/Server
>>>>>OOP has the ability to make changes in one place and have them reflected throughout the application via inheritance.
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>>>>Is inheritance the only plus with OOP?
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>>>No. There are a few other things that must be present. Polymorphism, etc. But, lack of in heritance is the biggest thing that is lacking in VB that makes in non-OOP. If you need more info on OOP, you should look at www.microsoft.com/vfoxpro and at MS KB article Q141304.
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>>Craig,
>> A few years back I was programming in MS Visual C++. I remember coming across an article on MSDN where MS said to stay away from inheriting more than 2 levels away from the superclass. example,
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>> Superclass--->Inherited Class--->Inherited Class
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>>They said there was a speed degradation if you tried to inherit anymore after that. I haven't looked into for awhile, have you heard anything similar about this?
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>>Mark A. Struck
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>When VFP 3.0 came out I heard that someone wanted to know when a preformance hit got noticeable enough. He got to something like 300 levels. I haven't tried this myself, but it should be easy enough to test.
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>The other thing to consider is the complexity of the class. I would think that the more complex the class, the longer it takes to instantiate a subclass.

Also the number of controls within a container class dramtically affects instantiate time. I had a client with a form class containing literally 1000+ containers and controls in VFP 3. It was a pig.