Hi Lynette,
<i><font color="#663300">also many seem to be moving away from Fox?
Just my observation. </font></i>
I don't agree with your observation. The lack of traffic on this forum does not in any way indicate a movement away from Fox.
Codebook is the Christopher Columbus of VFP frameworks. It was written in VFP 3 which in my opinion was an incomplete product and its source was copyrighted, so no one could make a living from improving it.
Generally, after one has spent the time learning Codebook's strengths and weaknesses, one choses to either make serious modifications to incorporate new and better ways of doing things, or one decides to purchase one of the other excellent commercial frameworks because they don't have the time or the interest to work on the guts of a framework and would rather spend their time working on solutions for their clients.
I chose the former path largely because my organization didn't want to budget the purchase of a commmercial framework. Now that I have my modified version of Codebook, I am not sure that I would want a commercial framework. I would be happy to share my modifications with the group, but one of the requirements of ongoing development is that the product continue to be backward compatible to the original product. Having no need of that backward compatibility, I abandoned a great deal of code that would be needed.
I read the postings on this forum regularly and assist when I can, but I don't know how parts of the framework behave because I have never used them or I have long ago removed them.
I was somwhat confused by your comment that your are "stuck" with Codebook. It is your choice. If you don't like Codebook, chose something else.
Pamela
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