>if i may butt in!? has VFP foster the loss of KISS
>principles? or are the no longer being taught?

it is true that for some obsecure reason VFP doesn't allow visual sub-classing of all it's base classes, but that doesn't mean VF{
doesn't "allow" you to program with a KISS attitude

>10-12 tabbed forms blows my tiny mind! and if he
>were on-board, im sure Codd would be doing loops.
>a word of advice from the dinosaur: SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY,
>SIMPLIFY. it has long been my understanding that that
>was what object & component(functional) development
>was all about!

you are mixing abusing a widget (tabbed forms) with using a programing methodology

Arnon