Does anyone know anything about VisualDbSee?
Alaska Software has asked me to contact a customer who is using the product, with ADS, and wants to convert to PGDBE.
What is the purpose of VisualDBSee in an Xbase++ application?
The customer wants to convert the application without source code changes.
I don't know how to respond to the customer.
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Wolfgang Ciriack
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Re: VisualdBSee
That is a good jokeThe customer wants to convert the application without source code changes.
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Wolfgang
Re: VisualdBSee
Without any code changes is really a good joke. "I want to drive a Ferrari instead of a BMW, but I don't want to change the car."
This is impossible without code changes. It may be possible with a handful of code changes. We deliver a service tool with our application to deal with the database and the tables belongig to our app (independent of the data model), change structures, find errors and so on (something like DBU, but better), and it took one and a half days to migrate this to use the PGDBE as an option. Besides the basics (File() -> Table() ...), the worst thing was the replacement of methods dealing with structure changes. Instead of creating and copying a table, ALTER TABLE is used there.
This is impossible without code changes. It may be possible with a handful of code changes. We deliver a service tool with our application to deal with the database and the tables belongig to our app (independent of the data model), change structures, find errors and so on (something like DBU, but better), and it took one and a half days to migrate this to use the PGDBE as an option. Besides the basics (File() -> Table() ...), the worst thing was the replacement of methods dealing with structure changes. Instead of creating and copying a table, ALTER TABLE is used there.
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Re: VisualdBSee
They sent me their source code today.
It's obvious that they don't have a programmer.
The app doesn't use ADS, just DBFNTX and they failed to give me any .LIBs that are referenced in the .XPJ file.
It's a very small application, but this has all the marks of a boondoggle.
There are only a few times, in the past 25 years, that I have worked on apps that had no programmers on staff.
I'm not doing that anymore.
It's obvious that they don't have a programmer.
The app doesn't use ADS, just DBFNTX and they failed to give me any .LIBs that are referenced in the .XPJ file.
It's a very small application, but this has all the marks of a boondoggle.
There are only a few times, in the past 25 years, that I have worked on apps that had no programmers on staff.
I'm not doing that anymore.
The eXpress train is coming - and it has more cars.
Re: VisualdBSee
And what is this application for?
Obviously, the client doesn't know anything about programming.
That's why they say they don't want changes to the source code.
In this case, there's only one solution.
Develop a new application in PGDBE and convert the DBF/NTX files.
Obviously, the client doesn't know anything about programming.
That's why they say they don't want changes to the source code.
In this case, there's only one solution.
Develop a new application in PGDBE and convert the DBF/NTX files.
Pedro Alexandre
Re: VisualdBSee
That would be actually very simple, technically, but only if I am working with a programmer.n this case, there's only one solution.
Develop a new application in PGDBE and convert the DBF/NTX files.
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