Probably not. :-)
Although if you're staying in the warm comfortable VFP zone it might be
worth the time to refactor the array stuff to use cursors. As Christof
mentioned, VFP is way faster with data (no surprise there) than arrays.
Well I won't be in VFP forever. I work a 35-hour week. IT is about 80% of
my job, and about 60% of that is programming. So stuff takes time. My plan is:
1. Approximately 1 year to optimize and refactor the framework, then the
application.
2. Approximately 1 year to convert it to a non-VFP back-end by subclassing
my data layer.
3. 1-2 years to produce a (most-likely feature-limited) web version.
4. 1-2 years to port the full desktop version to a different language.
Also, I don't like cursors for this kind of stuff because they can't really
be encapsulated (unless you go with a bunch of separate data sessions,
which introduces its own set of problems), and that makes them, for me,
hard to keep track of.
I do manipulate cursors extensively for data that doesn't have to hang
around in memory--complex reports, stuff like that. I can retrieve them,
play with them, output them, close them and forget them. And it looks like
I will be able to use Dabo to do that kind of thing when I get to that
point, which is a good thing--if Dabo is still around then. *LOL*
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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