I was the same. I used clipper along with sidekick and loved it. used overlays and a 3rd party linker to fit a huge app in under the 640K limit. I remember going to see the demo of Visual Objects - supposedly clipper for windows - and was unimpressed. all they showed us was how you could compile clipper code into native instructions instead of p-code, in a DOS window. they didn't show us a single example of a Windows based Clipper app. that told me all i needed to know. I stuck with Fox for windows 2.6. did anyone ever actually use Visual Objects on here?
And a story from around that time. I was contracting at a govt department that had a fox for windows 2.6 app and the previous programmer - whom the boss frequently told me was a genius - didn't know how to use screens. Instead of using 'do screen1.spr', he compiled up the screen, copied all the SPR code and threw it in the PRG. If that wasn't bad enough, he then deleted all the original screen files! and the boss wonders why i thought the previous guy was a moron! I laboriously tried altering the SPRs before realising it was easier and better to recreate the screens. what a crappy job! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eurico Chagas Filho Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2011 4:30 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] 25 years .... gone I used sidekick, it was a big improvement for Clipper. When CA, clipper for windows, a big mess, came along I changed to Visual Fox 3. E. >________________________________ >From: Dave Crozier <[email protected]> >To: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 2:58 PM >Subject: [NF] 25 years .... gone > >It's 25 years ago last week since Turbo Pascal 3 was released. I remember getting my copy along with Sidekick and writing code faster than I had ever done in the past. I wrote man, many applications that lasted nearly 15 years.... > >I remember the speed of the compiler and the fact that all the IDE sat in a footprint of less than 40K. Geez, you get thumbnail images bigger than that these days! > >I've still got the original disks along with a copy of Borland Eiffel that was a free gift with TP3 along with the well thumbed manual. > >Happy Days. > >Dave > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
