Header detail coding in filePro (was Re: Using filePro - Was Associated Fields and @AF)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 09:37:50AM -0400, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> I write filePro applications.  I have for over 20 years (as long as 
> there has been filePro).  I do it for a living, full time.
> 
> I have designed many,many applications over the years and I have yet to 
> see any other database that can offer the same flexibility, and ease of 
> development.

So, given that, Nancy -- and I'm not rousing rabble, here; I really
wanna know:

what percentage of those apps have necessitated header-detail U/I, and
how did you deal with it? Your own toolkit? Someone elses? Write it from
scratch every time? Fake it? Or redesign to avoid it, at the cost of
trainability?

Cheers,
-- jra
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