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> >So ... would you not agree that 'Visuality' stands somehow in the way of
> >pure OO at this stage in VFP?
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> "visual" programming and prototyping are to help you develop more rapidly as I said somwehere else OO is not about this.
> OO mixes with RAD mainly in the sense that OO helps increase reusability
> but they colide on other "matters"
So ... is that Yes, I agree? :)
> DEs are not what u talk about (or at least not what I think u talk about) in the sense that although they separate the open/close relations etc. from the rest of the form they don't isolate the table from the code
> if i use a DE I still seek directly in the table -
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> I find using DEs (as separate object from the form) enough
> I don't think that going for that extra trouble will add too much in robustness as my classes are "table independant" as is
As we say in French, "Il n'y a que les imbeciles qui ne changent jamais
d'avis", (only idiots never change their minds), I am now trying to
build a framework to implement OO, not directly of course, I think we
all agree that that would suicidal, but slowly extending the basic
framework, and I thought that the tableBase class is not a bad place to
start.
Anyway, thanks for your time to respond, and sorry if my postings are
not as limpid as I woud like them to be.
Regards,
Marc.
If things have the tendency to go your way, do not worry. It won't last. Jules Renard.