tellef wrote: > I consider myself an advanced beginner or low-intermediate > programmer.
What's this "advanced beginner or low-intermediate" stuff? Karen can crank out R:BASE code faster than just about anyone else I've worked with. Karen is without question an advanced R:BASE programmer. It was for this reason I was particularly interested in her input on the tools I've developed. It is important to understand that these tools are free for the asking. Just send me a private e-mail and I will fix you up with the DLL, the Form Generator and all the information you'll need to quickly create fantastic looking VB applications for R:BASE. Keep in mind that this DLL will also allow you to create web applications for R:BASE. The beauty of all of this is that you can expand your skill set while still working with R:BASE. There is no need to change to another database product in order to take advantage of all that PHP and VB have to offer! You get to keep your R> prompt, you get to keep all of the familair R:BASE advantages. You can even use your R:BASE reports if you choose! > Using his form generator .exe, his ODBCData.dll, > and a template project of his, I was able within a few hours > to connect to an RBase database and have an attractive main menu > form. A button on the main menu brings up a form with a search > button for the clients, does an '=' search first, then a 'like' > if it doesn't match, puts the results in a list box. Clicking > on a customer showed all their invoice header data in a grid. > Clicking on any invoice displayed the data in an editable form > with complete add/edit/delete functionality. Clicking on an > invoice also displayed all the invoice detail and all the > payments in 2 separate grids on a tabbed control. There was > data from 4 separate tables all on this one form! And I did it > in probably 2-3 hours. > > I was able to easily modify the project for my own wishes, could > easily add a column to the edit form, etc. This is a huge selling > point for my RBase clients. I can write a very sophisticated VB > front end, yet they can still have RBase on their desks to do R> > prompt searches, design their own reports, etc. > > Now on the web front: > > I am TOTAL NEWBIE on this! Using free downloadable software we > turned my lowly Win98 laptop into a web server. Then using free > downloadable web app design software, I was able to modify 3 > template scripts Scott gave me to connect to my RBase database, > ask the user for search criteria and display the results in a table! > Probably took me 45 minutes to do this. > > I connected to the web, found out my dial-in IP address, had a friend > dial into my computer and he was brought right into my program and > was able to search my database! I would imagine that this free > stuff isn't as powerful as the stuff you have to pay for. Or am > I wrong? Until now I've never explored the freeware world! > > Anyway I'm encouraging you to check out Scott's work! > > Karen > Scott ==== Scott J. Salisbury Matrix Data Systems / The R:Street Journal 5114 Point Fosdick Drive NW, Suite E-272 Gig Harbor, WA 98335-1733 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.MatrixDataSystems.Com http://www.SeaNet.Com/~sjs Direct Line: 206-423-7679 Toll Free: 888-386-5040 Seattle: 206-448-7975 Tacoma: 253-444-5166 Fax: 305-425-0491 ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
