On Jan 5, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Desmond Lloyd wrote:
> All righty then, I've started to dabble (forgive the term) with
> Dabo and python.
Sounds like a marketing jingle: Dabble with Dabo! ;-)
> Although your tools are GREAT, would you mind suggesting how to
> best learn the basics on how to get this stuff to run?
Learning/playing with Python is important, just so that you don't
get hung up on the differences between Python and VFP.
But I think you've identified the main problem we have. When you get
Fox, you at least have an exe to launch; of course, you're still
staring at a blank screen and Command Window, but at least from there
you can start exploring.
Dabo doesn't have a single IDE yet. We have a bunch of visual tools
that we are planning to integrate into a single IDE, but we're not
there yet. The screencast shows several of our tools (Class Designer,
Connection Editor and DEWizard) all working together, but it would be
really nice to have them all available in one place.
There are several places to start. You can quickly build an app that
connects to an existing database with the AppWizard. You can start
playing around with GUI design using the Class Designer. You can
start going over the code in the framework and trying to figure out
what's going on under the hood. I guess the answer depends a lot of
what it is you want to do, and what level of comfort you have with
Python.
-- Ed Leafe
-- http://leafe.com
-- http://dabodev.com
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