[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Correction! > HyperCard, with the addition of 9 to 5 (RpControl) Reports, did columnar > reports (called Views) easily and quickly (they were easy to design and they > ran FAST). If Reports is to be considered a valuable database engine or a > business system RAD it MUST have comparable report-making capacity. > Should we not set a minimum goal for Revolution that it at least have the > functionality of 16 year old HyperCard?
Actually, that's more a reinforcement of the original observation: Out of the box, for $99 HyperCard provided something very much like Rev's Report Builder. The much more comprehensive features found in Reports Data Pro were a third-party add-on that cost one order of magnitude more for a runtime distribution license. However desirable it may be, and possibly worth pursuing for a third-party (though I think the market will be riper next year for the reasons discussed here earlier), comparing specialized third-party extensions with in-the-box features raises expectations no previous xTalk has met. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
