What, you talk out of your a## - no comment :)
Actually thanks for the Kudos but you have actually missed the point of the 'complex piece of software engineering'. The intent of QDT is to make things as simple and intuitive as possible. The installer is (hopefully) a case of this. With the easy install, the software scans and builds everything for you (assuming you have standard setups such as a single boot file, etc).
Things are drag and drop, context sensitive menu driven, etc., etc. I would say that at least half of the engineering has gone into the interface and usability itself.
But you will see as soon as you get your hands on it (at least I hope so) :)
I don't know about the stability of SMSQ/E on Q40 or Q60 but QDT has been installed on these systems with no problems.
Cheers, jim
On Dec 30, 2004, at 5:26 PM, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
ÎÎÎ Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:19:06 -0000,Î(Î) Rich Mellor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ÎÎÏÎÏÎ/wrote:
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:36:51 -0000, jms1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Damn where's my copy of QL Today - trouble is that people want a helping
hand, but no longer turn to the user group for help and just moan rather
than shouting for help.
Unlike the world of Windows, Unix and Mac users, all the QL traders are
always willing to lend a helping hand and there are several sample boot
programs.
My guess is (without having read the article) that QDT would have been a
better solution for this user - go on Jim, persuade them to budle it with
Q40/Q60.
Well I am not so sure that QDT would be right if it weren't preinstalled. Moreover, I have found SMSQ/e 3.07 to be extremely unstable on the Q40 and Q60 and QDT doesn't work that well with older versions of (stabler) SMSQ/e. QDT is a very complex piece of software engineering (kudos to Jim of course) and as such is sometimes more difficult to tune than X-Windows. For a novice I am not so sure that it would be suitable at least not right away... maybe something like Launchpad...
Of course I am probably talking out of my a## here as I have NOT YET (hehehe) received QLT (as a matter of fact not even the previous issue :-( *sniff*) So I may have not understood correctly
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