Hi Doug,
I think it is very well my job to help staff using my software to be
more productive.
That's what I at least get paid for!
But then I work for an end user and not a software vendor.
BTW I hardly ever use ED to edit programs, Brian's mv-developer is so
much better.
It would be great if UD would come with a decent editor out of the box,
though.
Or if you could download one from the Rocket website.
Not that I wouldn't love to try your shiny new toy - I'm sure I'd love it.
But if I would ask my boss to buy an annual license for a fancy new
editor he would ask me to justify the extra cost.
And I think I would have real problems trying to do that.
I can understand that you are very proud of your product.
So would I, but I still can't really see the benefit for me personally.
When I edit Visual Basic code for instance, I am grateful to have an
editor that does not only show me when I make typos, it also makes
suggestions and completes code for me.
It's great because I am not very familiar with VB and there are so many
methods and unfamiliar syntax.
But writing UniBasic it would probably drive me nuts.
And that is because I know what I am doing and exactly what and how I
want to write it.
I don't need some smart-ass piece of software trying to tell me how to
do my job and probably be wrong half of the time.
But at least you can turn it off.
I more and more use so called state-of-the-art tools like Cognos or
Sharepoint as well, but more often than not I find them not as
productive and intuitive as the sales hype claims them to be.
Especially having to use the mouse and open and close new windows all
the time can be very time consuming, repetitive and outright boring.
Highlight the field, go to the properties window, click on the
such-and-such field (of course you have to scroll up or down to get
there half the time), click on the arrow and select one of the options
or double click on the dots and another window opens...
And then it still doesn't do what you expect because you have to click
on something else on the toolbar, open another window, open the
such-and-such tab and...
But then half of the time it still doesn't work and you have to start
from scratch.
At least changing the colour or skin on the finished product only takes
a couple of minutes :-) .
Mecki
On 28/04/2011 14:57, Doug Averch wrote:
Hi Mecki:
It doesn't matter if the staff is more productive or not, that is not our
job. We have given them what Google, Microsoft, Oracle and whomever have.
That browser front-end is rich with functionality, easy of use, and can be
color customized at a flip of a switch. If we don't give them attractive
front-end then the next thing you'll hear will be the door hitting your
bottom on the way out.
We work with HTML, JavaScript, Java, UOJ, and UniBasic. This is more work:
we have five functional pieces of software instead of one. We want our
clients and users to have the best we can offer that will allow them to do
their job with the software is not getting in their way.
What we should be doing is to make changes to software to accommodate
differing business needs. With Universe and Unidata databases, we can add
dictionary items on the fly, add prompts to screens, and changing report
selections, all with in a few hours. The big boys are still gathering
requirements and in meetings, when we deliver those requested changes.
In order to do this you must have the skill set, training, and state of the
art tools. Why do you think a boutique software company like U2logic has
been pushing the edge to give the U2 market the finest tools we can?
Because we are competing with the big boys who have state of the art tools
and are not using AE or ED to create and edit programs.
Those of us using XLr8Editor, with continuous compile, know before we
actually compile it whether our code will be syntax clean. How is that not
making U2 programmers even more productive?
Regards,
Doug
www.u2logic.com/tools.html
"Eclipse based XLr8Editor for U2"
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