I haven't used Visual Basic. Consensus seems to be that Revolution is
a lot easier as a way to make GUI front-ends.
As for program design, you probably need to think about whether the
information will be updated, and how. If it's all already in place
(you ship the data to your user along with your search-and-display
front-end), then converting it (export from Excel as comma-delimited
fields?) and incorporating it into your Revolution app will make your
life easier. If your user is going to have to add new data later,
that will get more complicated.
But I'm not the one to be answering; let's see what those who are
more expert say.
Charles
On Dec 19, 2005, at 7:58 AM, Martin wrote:
Hi Charles
Thanks for the quick response, The information is is already
produced in
Excel, but if it would be easier I could change this format, I
forgot to
mention that this program would be shipped on a cd so the end user
I guess
would have to drag the program onto there own pc so they could
update or add
articles to the program.
A question for you Charles, Whats the difference with Revolution
and Visual
Basic? As you can see I have no Idea where to start.
Thanks
Martin
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Subject: Re: Is this possible.
You'll get better answers from others who know more, but two things
seem clear to me:
1) Revolution is a fine way to do this
2) Using Excel is not going to be the easiest way (very not); are you
stuck with that? what form do you get the data in?
Charles Hartman
On Dec 19, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Martin wrote:
Hi there
I am looking to purchase Revolution, I have no programming
experience but I
have a task I wish to tackle. This task is using an excel
spreadsheet full
of reviews and articles, these articles are broken down into
columns with
headings these headings are criteria within the article. (example)-
I have
over 1500 articles on fishing, each article has a heading, a
species of
fish, what bait was used to catch the fish, a date, methods etc. I
want to
make a quick reference quide (programme) to find information
quickly from
the excel spreadsheet which in turn can be updated by the program if
possible. The front end of such a program will have drop down menus
say 6 in
a line. The first drop down box will display all the fish species,
The user
will select a fish (a Carp) from this list, which will then in turn
populate
all the other drop down menus with information on Carp, next drop
down menu
would be bait (maggot) etc etc.
So the end result would generate all articles containing the fish
Carp,
caught on the bait maggot, in the year 1990, on a lake, in England,
in the
Morning.
There may be 30 results, so I would like the article headings to
show up in
a box below the drop down boxes, these headings can be selected to
show the
full article, say in another box below. This then can be printed out.
Questions
Can this be done with Revolution and Excel
Is this type of thing difficult to produce.
Can this system be updated from the program and not Excel
Could all the drop down menus have all the information contained in
them so,
If my initial search was on date (year) this would populate all the
other
menus, so then I could search for the the species of fish etc.
I know this is a bit vague, but I was wondering if this could be
done.
Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks
Martin
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