On Sep 27, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
For me it's the lack of something like VFP or Visual Studio - a comprehensive, cross-platform way to create fat-client GUI-based apps, with easy refactoring, data binding and so on. Which is of course what Dabo will ultimately provide!
And when you consider the fact that two guys can create powerful visual tools like the ones in Dabo (ask some of the folks who were at my session at FoxForward if they'd agree to that assessment) in their spare time, doesn't that say an awful lot about the power of the language? While we're certainly not at the level of polish that the VFP tools are at, we have a completely functional class designer (with either sizers or absolute positioning), code editors with syntax coloring, code folding and Intellisense, database connection designers that work with 4 separate backend SQL databases, a powerful multi-banded report designer with PDF output, a built-in database engine for local file-based data storage, etc...
Imagine if we could get just one or two more people interested enough to contribute...
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