On 8/16/07, Derek Kalweit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe he meant not to write it in VFP at all? He admitted he's stopped > entirely, himself...
Nope. Sorry I was not more clear. FoxPro is the best language and IDE for developing deskop apps on Windows-only. Dabo is a better choice for cross-platform rich-client apps and may soon eclipse VFP. And there's a great horse race with a number of powerful competitors in the web and mobile and SOA spaces, but I'm a lot more inclined to back some of the well-licensed solutions in Python, PHP or Ruby. On 8/16/07, Mark Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A couple of messages up you said the thing I quoted in that message, > ie > > > Codebook was written a long time ago. Some of the thoughts of the > > ways to do things have evolved since then. > > At the time Paul Newton asked what you were referring to, and I'm > interested too. "Too busy" is certainly a valid reply though. > Our thread diverged, and Paul was asking me a somewhat different question, I think. First, that quote: Codebook is the original 3rd party framework and even got a 2.0 boost. Other frameworks built on top off, completely revised, or were built in parallel to the original CodeBook: COMCodebook, Mere Mortals, Visual MaxFramePro, Visual Fox Express. All have later, superior designs and even standalone tools like Rick Schummer's ViewEditor rock in comparison to the older data handling methods. Several parties have commented that they prefer SPT, bringing down the data, making the view updateable with MakeUpdateable or the like, and then pushing the data up to the backend either with TableUpdate() or using SPT like "Class Based Data Management" from Andy Kramek at http://www.tightlinecomputers.com/Downloads.htm That would be my preference were I to write another VFP app. Paul called me, and quite correctly, I think, on my comment that the assumptions in the designs of FoxPro itself were "dated." Wrestling with this one over a long weekend, I asked to withdraw the comment as not exactly what I meant. I came to recognize that the core engine of FoxPro is flexible enough to handle the latest buzzy designs of Aspect Oriented Programming or Functional Programming or the ActiveRecord pattern, but that the constructs of last decade, like Codebook, hadn't integrated in such cutting-edge designs. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ 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.
