Mike, it has actually come about in that I have taken on a junior assistant who has only been brought up on new stuff (2 years experience) and whilst I was running him through VFP ... which by the way he is most impressed with, I thought about how I would view the product were I to have just come across it and the advantages/disadvantages per se.
On your points: 1. Cursor Adapters ..... OK, but a bit of a Kludge and messy when changing platforms when you compare it with the .Net equivalent. The best implementation of multi platform I have seen was produced with the Advantage database software that is virtually 100% VFP native table compatible. If you remember Clipper they used to have a replaceable driver set for a number of platforms. 2. Debugger - yes, you can do interactive development with VB, and in fact Basic4Android (plug, plug!!). It makes development that much easier. 3. Multithreading - one of those things that if you know its there, you can design your software to make use of it. 4. List processing would add in features that are in Python which I find really useful. 5. Cloud support - yes it would be possible using (1) and so become seamless. Oh and just in passing, the one thing that the new fella really was impressed with was the limited instruction set believe it or not. In his own words "I can learn the whole language" and not just become fluent in a subset ... I guess he is referring to the horrendous number of .net calls that are available. Funny, but I really never thought about that before. Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 19 May 2014 15:40 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: What would you like.... What brought this up, Dave? On 2014-05-19 10:16, Dave Crozier wrote: > On the basis that VFP will never be updated now or taken over into the > "open source" world - whatever M$ say and promise... > > What is it that you would like added into VFP that would make it once > again into a market leading product? > > Just my 2 cents worth: > > 1. Simple integration into SQL and the ability to say just change a > driver that would instantly use SQL tables as opposed to VFP ones. If you use the CursorAdapter class, don't you have that ability now? > > 2. Real time debugger with the ability to change code on the fly > without re-running the program That would be nice. Didn't VB allow for that? > > 3. Multithreading I know this would make it a bit for legit, but I honestly don't know that I've ever come across a need where this mattered for my travels. > > 4. Inbuilt list processing Not sure what this is? > > 5. Free Text indexing aka PHDbase but built in ... This would be > covered of course if (1) above were to be implimented. > > 6. A cloud class built in to manipulate cloud data I don't think that'd work with the way Foxpro pulls the info across the wire like it does. They'd have to retool the engine, making it more client/server like instead of flat file access. --Mike [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
