Hi Lew, That last version of DP is working a treat. The one that you had released publicly, if you recall, still had the problem with multiple reports being called from the T-Log, however the updated version you privately sent me has been working fine, and it should now become the public release
I hope everything is going well. By the way, although I do not have a specific plan for it as a project, I have been thinking of the possibility of creating a generic web client application for simple panel browsing, adding, editing and deleting. I have been working with Adobe Flex, and the core program definition is all done as an XML document. In conjunction with the STE Manager, I think it would be quite possible to write some generic classes for the server interaction, client side data validation, calculations etc, and by using these generic classes, these can be called from sources code which would be XML report output from the DP STE_Base program to define a panel in Flex MXML, which could include its lookups and calculated formulae. An advantage of writing it for Adobe Flex is that the command line compiler and Adobe Flex SDK is public domain, the Adobe Flex Builder is not free, but if you create the Flex MXML source from the DP STE-BASE application you would not need the Builder, unless you were extending the application. With the compiler you can create SWF files for web deployment on a wide variety of operatings systems with the Flash Player, or what are called AIR Windows Desktop applications. I still have major reservations about the value of a monolithic Windows version of DP. These days most people want a web enabled database more than a combined client and DBMS. They also want interoperability with other products and services. Personally I think DP needs to have a web enabled backend as its DBMS and a separate client which can either be a desktop application or a web deployed application. Regards Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 8:31 AM To: Dataperfect Users Discussion Group; Dataperfect Users Discussion Group Cc: Don Friedman Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Commenting in formula I'm sorry I'm not doing much lately here. I'm hanging on and still studying Window's coding, but nothing new to report. Good luck everybody -- these are hard times. Lew Bastian -------------- Original message from Don Friedman <[email protected]>: -------------- Thanks everybody - got it. Rick, always nice to know you're still around. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Rick Parry <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Don, I believe it is: /* Text */ Take care, Rick From: Don Friedman <[email protected]> To: Dataperfect Users Discussion Group <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:59:58 AM Subject: [Dataperf] Commenting in formula Help please. I have forgotten how to place a comment in a formula and can't seem to find it either on the help screen or in Ralph's book. I have rarely used this feature but want to in a current project. Don P.S. Has anyone heard from Colin in NZ lately? I dropped him an email but I must have an old address. -- Don Friedman ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC PRS Data Systems 205 S Main Street Pittsburgh, PA 15215 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf -- Don Friedman ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC PRS Data Systems 205 S Main Street Pittsburgh, PA 15215 412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
