R: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-24 Thread Maurizio la Cecilia
> francesco perillo > Inviato: sabato 24 aprile 2010 8.52 > A: Harbour Project Main Developer List. > Oggetto: Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" > applications ? > > It is not its job ! > hbqt maps the Qt classes, and it's something we mus

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-24 Thread Antonio Maniero
Hi For me the intent is follow Francesco's original thoughts and create my application based on Qt style and dropping any old style. However typical xBase programmer would have a lot difficulties to learn and use this new approach so a compatibility layer is necessary. IMHO this is all or nothing,

R: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-24 Thread Maurizio la Cecilia
> Lorenzo Fiorini > Inviato: sabato 24 aprile 2010 7.38 > A: Harbour Project Main Developer List. > Oggetto: Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" > applications ? > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Pritpal Bedi > wrote: > > I've no

R: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-24 Thread Maurizio la Cecilia
riginale- > Da: harbour-boun...@harbour-project.org > [mailto:harbour-boun...@harbour-project.org] Per conto di Pritpal Bedi > Inviato: sabato 24 aprile 2010 1.50 > A: harbour@harbour-project.org > Oggetto: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ? > >

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread francesco perillo
> I've nothing against hbqt. > The discussion is about using it to create business apps and I pointed > one problem: many here have a lot of C5x CUI code to convert and hbqt > does not help. It is not its job ! hbqt maps the Qt classes, and it's something we must have. Also hwgui/minigui have suc

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread francesco perillo
> And if you count on me, I will surely provide whatever I could on hbXBP > front. Ok, I will do some tests asap. Thanks, Francesco ___ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailm

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread Lorenzo Fiorini
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Pritpal Bedi wrote: I've nothing against hbqt. The discussion is about using it to create business apps and I pointed one problem: many here have a lot of C5x CUI code to convert and hbqt does not help. > This is the main problem of > every GUI library. We tend t

[Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread Pritpal Bedi
francesco perillo wrote: > > Pritpal, Bruno, Luciano, Maurizio, you all say interesting things... > > Let's try to go ahead step by step. > > < long message deleted to not be tedious... > > > I found the documentation for hbxbp (well, from the original... :-) ) > so I may try to start from th

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread francesco perillo
Pritpal, Bruno, Luciano, Maurizio, you all say interesting things... Let's try to go ahead step by step. < long message deleted to not be tedious... > I found the documentation for hbxbp (well, from the original... :-) ) so I may try to start from there to create some simple forms that feed

R: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread Maurizio la Cecilia
> francesco perillo > Inviato: venerdì 23 aprile 2010 13.38 > A: Harbour Project Main Developer List. > Oggetto: Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" > applications ? > Personally, I did some tests in the past with hwgui and used the text > based coo

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread Bruno Luciani
If somebody look's for a more clipper way this is the idea of HBQtcommand , which is using a sintax like minigui no full compatible directly , to increase power using some HBQT goodies but exist an include to translate minigui code to hbqtcommand. It is in alpha stage but the concept is interes

[Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread Pritpal Bedi
francesco perillo wrote: > > Personally, I did some tests in the past with hwgui and used the text > based coordinates as multipliers of font height and width... > WIDTH value can be calculated... code can be taken from the GET > system, since it calculates the screen area to use... just multipl

[Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread Pritpal Bedi
Lorenzo Fiorini wrote: > > This is the main problem of hbqt. If it can't easily migrate existing > C5x UI code like @ say/get read forms and tbrowses it is almost > useless for me. Easily desn't mean 100% compatible but something that > can be done using PP and some modifications. > This is th

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread francesco perillo
> This means that a developer needs to change every ROW, COL value to X, > Y and add the WIDTH value. Personally, I did some tests in the past with hwgui and used the text based coordinates as multipliers of font height and width... WIDTH value can be calculated... code can be taken from the GET s

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread Lorenzo Fiorini
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Massimo Belgrano wrote: > The only steep will be a �...@say get replacement > ... > @ 20, 300 XSAY 'Customer' GET cCustomer GETWIDTH 200 ; >  VALID TestEmpty(cCustomer,'Customer Name') This means that a developer needs to change every ROW, COL value to X, Y and

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread Massimo Belgrano
The only steep will be a @say get replacement http://www.donnay-software.com/EXPMETH.HTM #xcommand @ < nSayCol >, < nSayRow > XSAY < cText >; [SAYWIDTH < nSayWidth >] ; GET < uVar > [GETWIDTH < nGetWidth >];

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-23 Thread Lorenzo Fiorini
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:34 PM, francesco perillo wrote: > In my code I have a lot of VALID and WHEN and PICTURE... if we don't > think about a way to emulate such functionalities we may be forced to > rewrite too much code... This is the main problem of hbqt. If it can't easily migrate existi

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-22 Thread francesco perillo
I don't think that it's "too early"... we may work hard for many months to have stable hbQt.. but if it doesn't interface with the "clipper" way of doing business applications ? In my code I have a lot of VALID and WHEN and PICTURE... if we don't think about a way to emulate such functionalities w

[Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-22 Thread Shum
Hi Angel, >I hope this time Shum will join as he is also an xbase++ expert. I am converting Xbase++ applications into Harbour + hbxbp (hbqt) However, this two weeks ...I had to look after my little son..., I will back to work (the converting ...) on/about May Shum -- View this me

[Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-22 Thread Angel Pais
El 22/04/2010 3:21, Massimo Belgrano escribió: Hi angel If you share here basic part of your work "get like screen navigable" maj help go in right direction I remember a similar argument with eXPress for xbase++ by roger donnay I've published all the source code in this very same list. When I

Re: [Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-21 Thread Massimo Belgrano
Hi angel If you share here basic part of your work "get like screen navigable" maj help go in right direction I remember a similar argument with eXPress for xbase++ by roger donnay 2010/4/22 Angel Pais : > Number 1 I tried some months ago and result in a show stopper for me > I found no way to mak

[Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-21 Thread Angel Pais
Hi Pritpal: There are 5 main things a bussines program does: 1) Imput Data 2) Save Data 3) Retrieve Data 4) Show Data 5) Print Data Number 2 and 3 are topics harbour covers very well. Number 4 and 5 I haven't tried yet Number 1 I tried some months ago and result in a show stopper for me I fou

[Harbour] Re: someone uses hbqt for "business" applications ?

2010-04-21 Thread Pritpal Bedi
francesco perillo wrote: > > Now that hbqt seems more stable than before, I'd like to know if > someone is using hbqt for business-type applications, I mean "crud" > applications, ERP, accounting, etc > > Anyone wants to share some screenshots ? > It is too early to ask such question. It