>
>
> In fact when I start out a new app, I:
> - write myself a brief [what the app is, what is should do, with a few ideas
> on how]
> - draw the interface and pricipal windows
> - write the manual [or sketch it out in such a way that I know what I should
> be implementing and how]
> - conceive the data structures [this part allows me to determine the sort of
> records that I'll be needing internally, for saving data, for cancelling,
> for passing messages internally...]
> - coding
>
> Using this approach, I avoid jumping in the code first with little or no
> preparation, but it gives me a good roadmap of where I'm going and how I
> intend to get there... it also allows me - because of the record section -
> to pass addresses rather tha lists of variables to FNs...
>
> I'm not saying this is *the* method to do things in FB, just that it has
> helped me, and hoping to give some insight as to why.
>
> ;-j
> [sunday morning gnome]

Thanks Jonathon, I'm pinning this on the wall.
Stewart