On Doug's behalf, I'm currently retrofitting 'clean' dictionaries which will work with OLEDB against many of our tables. I use the dictionary editor part of XLr8 and this is the only dictionary editor I am aware of which is moderately capable (ED certainly is not) of encouraging some standardisation & consistency. From my POV the dictionary tool alone is worth the starting price.
Cheers, Stuart -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Averch Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2011 03:00 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Game changer for U2 editors ([AD] added for Doug) Hi Charlie: Since most of your work is on the competition database you would not be able to use the XLr8Editor, since it only works using UniObjects for Java. We do not have a Jbase or D3 version of our tools. You can call the "baby ugly" but at least we have a baby. Whatever effort we have put into the XLr8Editor was initially for altruistic reasons. When our clients saw us using AE/ED and said: "Why are you using that "DOS" editor?". Or another favorite: "Why don't you have a full screen editor like you can in Microsoft for editing your code?". What are we suppose to say back? IBM/Informix/Unidata/VMARK has not created any tools since the early 1980's. No independent company was creating any tools for the U2 world that could match Visual Studio just for editing C# or VB. Are we suppose to kludge something and hope everything will work? Of course, not. Each advancement whether evolutionary or revolutionary on our Eclipse IDE plugins is to show our clients that our U2 databases are the best in the world. We now have state of the art tools for editing programs, editing dictionaries, editing objects, creating web forms, resizing, and installing software. These all run on a world class platform called Eclipse that runs on any Unix, Linux, Mac, or Windows system. Now that is something to be very proud of! Regards, Doug www.u2logic.com On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Charlie Noah <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Doug, > > I'm not disparaging your editor - really I'm not. If the compile is > switch settable and that's the desired behavior, then that's great. I > know you've put lots of blood, sweat and tears into it, and have a mighty > fine product. > You can be justifiably proud of it. Besides, nobody wants to be told > their baby is ugly, even if it is (I'm not saying yours is, that's just a > saying). > The main reason I won't change is because I use my own editor which > started life 27 years ago. It does everything I want it to, and if I > need something new, I just add it. Heck, it can even make coffee! > > Now before anyone starts flaming me for being a dinosaur, I freely > admit to being that, and an opinionated, crusty curmudgeon. It's not > true what they say about old dogs and new tricks, though. I'm > constantly learning new things, and if they make me a better > developer, I adopt them. If they don't, I leave them for someone else. > > Even though most of my work lately is supporting D3, I do my coding in > Jbase and move it to D3. They are quite compatible, and the Jbase > compiler is pretty good at telling you what the problem really is. I > have spent many years programming in Universe and Unidata, and would happily > do it again. > > > Charlie Noah > Charles W. Noah Associates > [email protected] > > The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and > do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of > my former, current or future employers, employees, clients, friends, > enemies or anyone else who might take exception to them. > > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
