>Thanks all for the feedback. Looks like not many R&R defendars???
>
>Regards,
>Farouk Yew Abdullah
>
>
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Can anyone who has change from Foxfire to R&R tell me whether the change
>is worthwhile? If can please me know the pros and cons after moving to R&R.
>Thanks in advance....
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Farouk Yew Abdullah
>>>Visual Solutions (M) Sdn. Bhd.
>>>Malaysia
>>
>>Farouk, R&R doesn't use Rushmore, as Tony said, and it doesn't have other
>Foxfire! attributes like multiple user lists, a data dictionary so fields
>are shown with your own descriptive name instead of field names, etc. etc.
>>
>>HTH

Farouk,

I'm sorry I didn't get back with you when you posted this on the Promatrix support forum. I have been using R&R for several years. The lastest version (version 8) has an OCX control you just place on your form, set properteies, and run. It works very well on a stand-alone application with not a whole lot of records. As others have mentioned, it does not use Rushmore. It does, however, have a data dictionary that you can provide descriptive field names.

On a network with large tables, R&R is very slow. I replaced a report that runs from a single record report from the parent table with a native VFP report and there is no comparison. The native VFP report ran exptremely fast compared to the same R&R report. It is almost as though R&R uses a filter to query the data.

I have ordered the other Wall Data product called Arppegio. It is the SQL version of R&R. They say it has the same report designer as the xbase version of R&R.

I have also just purchased FoxFire because I need the capability in a different application for the user to create their own reports and mailing labels. You cannot do this with R&R (unless the user purchased their own copy of R&R). One of the only things I don't like about FoxFire compared to R&R is that R&R's runtime can be distributed royality free where FoxFire charges licensing fees. I wish FoxFire could be distributed royality free like a majority of all the other developer tools out there.

HTH,

James