What about 4th Dimension/4D Server for databases (www.4d.com) as
alternative? REALbasic has a lot of advantages, but I didn't find a
replacement for the fully programmable plug-ins 4D Write (text
processor) and 4D Draw (freely placing and moving any objects,
including database fields, by language AND by the user).
Best, Dietmar
Am 05.01.2007 um 08:47 schrieb Stefan:
Am 05.01.2007 um 08:32 schrieb Ryan Dary:
There is a group of us out there that is unhappy with REALbasic
and would turn to another product immediately if it just offered
that one or two things that we're using from REALbasic. What is
that one piece for you?
I developed a relatively big library, which allows to develop DB
apps quite fast.
The lib is a kind of an alternate db bindings lib for RB.
Additionally, the lib
contains other stuff, like a NotificationCenter, LinceseManagement,
StandardEvents
for various controls. The lib is the result of 2 years work - and a
spin-off of several
other projects.
Well, Cocoa's CoreData Bindings approach is fast too, but I prefer
to be able to
deploy to different platforms, not only OS X - at least
potentially. If Apple would
decide to port Cocoa to Windows finally, I's switch back.
I checked QT, but decided against it. C++ is too expensive for my
typical tools.
I checked Java, but decided against it. Roughly 2-3 years ago, as I
started RB,
a Java prototype for a document management solution was far too
slow and required
far too much resources [RAM]. Today, this might not be a problem
anymore.
For now - despite all the bugs and problems - RB allows to develop
smaller tools
and helpers quite fast.
E.g., Server Scout is a 2007/1 build:
http://www.turingart.com/apacheServerWatcher_lan__en.htm
http://www.turingart.com/downloads/ServerScoutX.zip [UB]
Without having developed the above mentioned lib, I would probably
re-start evaluating
alternatives.
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