Michael Chean wrote:
I want to write databased applications to take care of some of the
pain-points at my current employment. And if this works
out I'd like to extend it to the full application - which is your normal
professional billing program.
I'm using VFP right now and would have no reluctance to continue using it
if it were still in development. For ad-hoc reporting
and querying it's the best. VFP covers all of the bases including report
writing, a built in db, SQL support (sort of)
and I can see that with LiveCode I'm going to have to add external tools to
fill in the gaps. Thanks for the responses.
Yes, FoxPro had many nice advantages. I used to use the Mac version
back in the day, and was quite impressed with it even back then. RIP;
it was a fine tool.
For reports in LiveCode you can roll your own but it's a lot of work to
do it from scratch, so just as the VisualBASIC world relies on Crystal
Reports we LiveCoders use tools like Quartam Reports.
Sure, it's an add-on, but it's nicely crafted and well worth a look.
With most RAD tools these days I think you'll find that reporting is
such a complex beast that most of them suggest a third-party tool to
handle the heavy lifting. FoxPro was very much an exception to the rule
in that regard.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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