On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:45 AM, AndyHC <[email protected]> wrote:
> Say no more, that's a kiss of death if ever I heard one. > Sounds a bit like Lianja (or 'The Last One') and has the same problem - in > addition to everything else Ted mentioned VFP also gives you the option to > ignore all the graphical UI and just cut code (OK I wouldn't do that for my > first cut at a form, but I might for my last cut). IDEs based on graphical > UIs are fine for near-end-user simple applications (think Access) but > there's a lot more to coding than that. Just finding out how to break > through the UI shell in e.g. Access/VB can be more difficult than learning > the language. > > ------------------ You are all spoiled on your years of experience with a language. You know it like the back of your hand so everything else is "not as easy" or some line like that. You want to compile outside of the IDE go ahead. This is just syntax of making a .dll from C# files. Put in VB and no problem. You can jar up java files as well. csc /target:library /out:Something.xyz *.cs What VFP gave us was RESOURCES of the machine to do a lot of things local. As the scope of UI changes came about and Web went through Web 2.0 VFP was left holding the bag. Building blocks built by others, javascript & jQuery, that made developers lives easier are not supported in VFP. Getting changes by tweaking some CSS files are not available either. We have great memories of a fantastic tool that fit a time. That time has come and gone. Managers of users today want easy deployment of apps. They don't like the idea of Citrix from a cost perspective. Companies that have bought their competition now have scattered locations which makes for a tough time in the file server world from a VFP toolset. There are sister apps that can deal with this such as West Wind but few people here seem to work with it. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmyjkfynyzoockaczzweoexomgpml2usuwa4qzri0jrl...@mail.gmail.com ** 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.
