>>It's different from the normal way of defining classes
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>Define normal. <g>

Hurumph. I resemble that remark. <g>

> In the first version of VFP I worked with, we didn't have a visual class designer yet.
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>Remember, the language syntax and compiler are created before the visual tools. DEFINE CLASS is *always* available before the visual tool for the same class. (Although we don't always get to see the product at that stage.)
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>I suspect that they just didn't see a need to modify the visual tool and had other features they wanted to get into the product instead.

Or, didn't know just how much developers like it once they have it. As the product gets more exposure w/i MS, the more the rest of the world sees the cool stuff we have had that the rest of the world hasn't.

Of course the rest of the world has some pretty cool stuff, too. ;-)