Terry,

I downloaded this 'framework' and ran through it. I'm declining your 'challenge', for two reasons, and I'd like you to read this thoroughly.

1) I find this interface and overall framework to be sub-standard and confusing to users.

I also showed it to a 'power user' and gave him a chance to run it, without offering any comments or any information on who wrote it. His observations and comments were consistent with my reactions.

When I shared with him your specific 'terms' from your prior message, his reaction was something similar to 'preventing me from losing changes if I accidently navigate away from it is more important than whether I might see the mouse pointer for a split second....tell the guy I said he needs to get his priorities right'.

So I basically refuse to accept a challenge to reproduce something that I would not have developed myself in the first place.

2) More importantly...I don't work for free. Currently I have a full-time contract and am writing an article for possible publication. By 'free' I don't necessarily mean money...there are many forms of compensation. But I have nothing at all to gain by doing this.

I am supremely confident that I can take this application, improve it, and have it run at generally the same speed...I am also quite confident that it would be a complete waste of my time, because even if I were to do so, your views likely wouldn't change one bit.

You've expressed such strong negative statements about .NET that I cannot believe any solution I send you would crack through that bias. If you doubt me, go back and read through all of your posts, then ask yourself why anyone would spend the time trying to convince you of something.

You should think seriously about that before you post any type of "you're not willing to put your money where your mouth is" response.

Please don't misinterpret my response. Under different circumstances, I'd be interested in taking someone up on this. Quite honestly, if I felt you'd give it an honest evaluation, I would probably feel very differently.

Kevin