Hi,
I'm new to RBASE Windows and I recently purchased an upgrade to RB 65++ and am converting a complicated RB 45++ application.
Most things have gone fine. But, I have questions that I cannot find help with a problem I have in HELP or the documentation.
I converted the data and applications to RB 65++ for Windows. I used the Application Developer in 45++ to develop the application and wrote several other programs that can be executed from the menu system in Application developer.
I can see and run the application and its sub programs fine with no errors found so far, but will likely need to make changes to the application developer. I find no way to change an application short of redesigning it in Windows version or abandoning the Developer and Editing and CODELOCKing the files. The old file endings were APP, API, and APX. Windows apparently uses APW for Windows and I found in the documentation that the Developer stores special information in the .APW file. Is there a way to get the Win Developer convert this app to windows fully? If not is there a workaround to get it to be able to modify this application, such as rename the .API file, but I assume the files are different. Would the new RBASE convert this. If so, How? Is there a workaround to cause RBase Windows to edit and keep maintained a former 45++ DOS Program developed in Developer.
Also, since this was a "bug free" application in RB 45++, what is the likely hood that I will have any problems in RB 65++ for Win? Anything special I should look out for? By the way, I use good programming practices and had very few problems with RB in the period I used it from the early 80s to 1998.
Thanks,
B H Hix
