Karen and Javier, Ain't it great to get both sides of the story? I'm archiving both your comments for reference.
Thanks Dennis ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 4:05 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: converting forms from DOS to 7.6 Javier: I respectfully disagree! I have probably converted 90% of the DOS forms. If you don't, then what you have to do is trace a program that brings up the form, make sure you go in and out of every field on the form, make sure you save the row, etc. in order to catch all the hidden eeps. Then you have to write them down so you don't forget. And you have to find out which ones have popups, etc. I'd rather convert because then all of that comes over and I don't miss anything. Then I spend the time to do things like change form expressions, see if those eeps can be replaced with internal code, etc. Karen Having done conversions all the way from the original DOS application all the way to 9-64, my advice - when going from DOS to 7.6 - would be to redo the forms from scratch, using the old form as rough guides. There are just too many things that you can do more efficiently with the newer versions and too many new features that you will likely want to implement. Also, there are also issues with form lookup fields (that were completely changed in the newer versions) that you would have to re-create. All in all, the effort to convert and correct old forms is just not worth it...IMHO.
