>What is the 'proper' technique for long term development of an application? I migrated my fp2.6 application to vfp3, then vfp5 and I still haven't got around to using the forms designer and VCX library. Why should I?
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>As a former Simula programmer, naturally I class and subclass everything, but I still like the infinite flexibility of 'written' program modules, and my add-on to FoxDoc which shows me where every class and proc is defined or called throughout. Why should I change?
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>John Burton

As you say - why should you change? The 'proper' technique should be the one you feel happiest with. After all YOU are developing it, why make your own life more difficult. I would recommend checking out the forms designer and VCX library to see if it could make some things easier but if you're happy with the non-visual approach, why change?