Hi, I'm developing a large application in REALbasic. I've recently become aware of RuntimeRev. and I think it might be a good alternative to RB for this type of app. I don't know *card development, so I am wondering how you *card developers think about apps such as this one:
This app has about 50 screens. The user is asked roughly 250 questions: multiple choice, text and selection type of questions, and the responses are stored in a REALdatabase. (a rather poor but small and embedded relational database). After answering the questions, the app calculates some reports (a bunch of not very complex math and lots of if-statements). The reports functions use CSV comma-separated data files for storing lookup tables of constant values. The reports are roughly 500 lines x 6 columns. The report can be viewed within a listBox control (you might call it a tableview or a spreadsheet control) The app can also export the report to a formatted Excel file using MS Office Automation. RB's strengths: In RB, I discovered that creating the numerous screens and linking the controls to the database fields went extremely fast. RB's weaknesses: In RB I discovered that the static typing and pre-declared variables made a big dent in my productivity as I started coding the numerical calculations and the tedious job of hand-formatting the reports, in both sending data to the ListBox and sending data to the Excel export. So that's the project. Are there any methodologies or plugins or conventional bits of wisdom how this app could be more easily produced in RunRev? TIA Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
