On Monday 04 May 2009 02:07:11 pm Paul McNett wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Wonderful! Could I also, on a form field, set it to, instead of giving a > > dropdown, launch a read-only grid of the table from which the form field > > will be selected, with that grid able to do what we discussed above? > > Yes, that could be programmed. > > Paul
Thanks Paul, that's really cool! I don't know how many of you were familiar with Clarion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion_(programming_language) Clarion was by far the best and quickest way I ever found to whip out a database app, but when I switched to Linux Clarion didn't, so ever since I've been looking for something to match Clarion's productivity. I had a brief flirtation with RAILS, but ultimately it was too broad for my liking. The questions I asked you about keyboard control, grids calling forms and form fields calling grids had a purpose -- that was the natural behavior of Clarion apps and worked very nicely. The fact that your forms and grids can be populated from the database also bestows some Clarion like productivity. I'll probably try doing my next moderate automation project for Troubleshooters.Com in Dabo. I already know and like Python and Postgres so that's certainly a plus. Thanks very much for answering my questions. Your answers convinced me that Dabo is worth persuing. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
