> on 5/30/02 22:01, Robert Palmer Jr at robertpalmerjr (AT) mac .D.O.T com wrote:
>> BTW, this would also mean that VAPP could really be JUST a faceless
>> background app - the UI for VAPP could be an AS Studio application -
>> simply an AS front end for the background app.
>>
>> Of course, all this means that VAPP becomes closer to an AS SDK rather
>> than an application, but is anyone really using VAPP as a standalone
>> application except to initially set up tables or do browsing. I'm
>> guessing that most users of VAPP don't use it as the main interface to
>> their database.
Yes, this was exactly what I was thinking of. If I need to present data in a
visually acceptable format for my users, I have to use Filemaker. If I could
put a cocoa front end on VAPP using AS-Studio and use AppleScript for the
IAC (mainly controlling Adobe Illustrator) it would give me a much better
alternative.
Simon
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