<i><font color="#663300"><i><font color="#663300">I've taken on a new project that is Codebook oriented. So, I pulled my copy of YAGs book that I bought in 1995 off the bookshelf, blew off the dust and set down to do some reading. I also downloaded the lastest revisions. I recently did a project using COM Codebook so the C, I, and A layers were familiar to me. However, I quickly realized why I didn't use Codebook 6 years ago... no documentation. I'm wading throught the C level classes now, getting a handle on them, but it's difficult. Is there anyplace that the classes, methods, etc are documented other than YAG's book? I'm really interested in learning how the different classes work together and can be assembled into an app.</font></i>
You can download the User Manual written by CT Blankenship, which might give you some insight. That's available at ftp://leafe.com/cb/UserManual.zip. It was written for the early 6.0 version, but except for the stuff he added (the security controls, for example), the way things work is pretty similar to the CB3 way of doing things.
Otherwise, the only thing else I can suggest is to run the app in debug mode, and step through the calls. You should get a pretty good idea of the flow of events for such typical tasks as creating a new record, saving a record, etc. Keep in mind, though, that the major shortcoming of CB3 was the way it modeled the relationship between tables - the bizobjs simply didn't do that very well in any case more complicated than simple parent-child-grandchild single-table relationships.
Then, of course, whenever you get stuck, search the archives of this Forum, or if that turns up empty, post a message here. Somehow we'll get you up and running!
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Thanks Ed. I'm moving forward and will post questions.
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Craig Berntson
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