I have been playing around in the last week or so with creating an FLL. I came across a set of C++ classes called CLucene that do indexing and searching of text. This is something I have long had an interest in and often mess around with in VFP.

Rather than attempting to port the C++ classes into VFP, I decided to try wrap them in an FLL and call them that way. Having never programmed in C/C++ before there was a fun learning curve involved in just getting the code to behave let alone using the API of CLucene and Fox to pull data from a table into the CLucene index and then search it. I have however managed to do just that, and it is very cool. I will look to develop this further overtime, and if it is promising enough use it in some of our production apps. How great are FLLs!