At 03:11 PM 7/9/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Razzak:
... actually here's why -- this client has NO programs written in RBase. None at all. They have a couple crappy forms designed in-house (converted from old DOS forms apparently), but when I asked about them, they said "oh, we don't use those forms anymore". All of what they do is straight from the data browser. They use a consultant (me) an average of 5 hours a year and are proud that they have such a "simple" system and they don't have to learn programming or hire a consultant.
Good point!
They use RBase as a glorified Excel spreadsheet, and that's the truth.
That is the nicest comment you have ever shared or written on this list.
On the other hand, they might know more about QBE and getting stuff out of a data browserscreen than I do!!! I spent alot of time pushing a vertical table structure, and in the estimate I gave for creating this huge table I wrote in the estimate that I would never recommend creating such a table on my own. Money is not the issue at this company -- I would have to change the entire department's concept of working, and telling them that they would have to hire me to design forms and reports for this table wouldn't make sense to them if I am able to create a spreadsheet-like table of 747 columns like what they want, which is within the advertised limit.
As I have said in my earlier reply to James Bentley: ... the user or developer needs to review and test the exact scenario and see how it works in all 6.x and 7.x versions of R:BASE. This may be a legacy issue which will ONLY be addressed and fixed in the latest versions of R:BASE 7.6 and Turbo V-8 for Windows (subject to replication by R:Dream Team). You should NEVER run into limitations using R:BASE Turbo V-8. Very Best R:egards, Razzak.
