Ed Leafe wrote: > On Dec 18, 2006, at 9:42 PM, Paul McNett wrote: > >> + That the AppWizard is misrepresented as a do-it-all, or that the >> AppWizard *is* Dabo. If it is misrepresented as that, please provide >> citations. > > You're misunderstanding the concern. It isn't that it's being mis- > represented; it's that people make assumptions about Dabo based on > what they first see, and for most people, it's a datanav app. They > then assume that this is how Dabo apps are supposed to look and work.
Back to human nature. You know... AppWizard used to be named something more descriptive, something like MaintenanceAppWizard. Perhaps giving it that general name contributed to this effect? In talking to people, sometimes they discuss Dabo in terms of what they saw in the AppWizard output, but are you positive that you are reading their assumptions correctly that they believe their app must look and work just like that? Because if I were that person, I'd come away going "ick, Dabo isn't general enough for me". So, *if* your assumption is true, we have a problem to solve. >> + That the AppWizard is being misused. We need a definition for >> "misused" and examples of such misuse cited. > > The 'misuse' doesn't mean that people are using it to plot murders > or anything. ;-) It just means that they run appwiz, believing that > that's the only way to start a Dabo app, and then try to edit the > result to work like something that probably shouldn't follow the > datanav design. I think I'm in agreement with just about everybody: 95% of the datanav design should be dropped, with the remaining 5% ending up as generated output code. Much of that code had to do with fieldspecs/relationspecs, and other things we don't do anymore. Also, when it began it became a testing area for areas in dabo that weren't very mature yet (dGrid). But AppWizard is a different story. I have a hunch I may fall into the 'misusing' camp myself, because I am able to take the generated code and work it into any conceivable data app. -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev
