Hola Ralph, Thanks for keeping us posted on Lew's progress. Looking forward to DPWin's roll-out.
The only programming language I know is what I've been able to build with DP; but, I'd be pleased to serve as a beta-tester. All the best, Tony PS Have been "filtering" old stuff I had in storage and found a copy of Brendan Magill's letter to the DP Community introducing your book and got a kick about how he wove your chiropractor and DP skills. If anyone in DPUG is interested in seeing it, I'll be pleased to post it. On another note, it's close to 20 years since some of us started interacting in the Compuserve/WP/DP forum. It's been a wonderful ride. Thanks and kudos, Lew. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ralph Alvy Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dataperf] DPWin Roadmap Here is what I got from Lew today ... --- My plan is to first create a program that would essentially be like DP running in a data entry mode using an existing DP database. -- no defining, no reports, just browsing, look up, and create / edit / delete records. You would have to use the old DP to define the database and do reports. As a group we'd use this a lot to get it to work like we want. Second would be to migrate all data to new data structures -- convert all the files to new formats. The structures would be simplified, but more compact and powerful. This would also remove the size restrictions on fields, panels, files, etc. Third would be new panel / structure definitional mode that would be a lot like what's in the current DP, but you'd be able to do almost everything with data in the database -- no need to export and import the data. I'm not sure what to do about reports. There are some really fancy report generation programs in existence, and it might be best to just supply a SQL interface. This is a very ambitious plan, but my hope is that, after the first program exists, more people could join in the effort. Lew _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1392 - Release Date: 4/22/2008 3:51 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1392 - Release Date: 4/22/2008 3:51 PM _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
