<i><font color="#663300">Dutifully followed the instructions and installed CodeBook and printed out
the documentation.
The definitive guide tells me to use QSTART.APP which I can't find.
Can anyone tell me where/if it is in the current download files
or is there another file that I should use?
Regards,
M. Wagner
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Hi Michael, as a Codebook almost-newbie, I can give you the advantage of my recent experiences. One. . . the documentation refers to a previous version (6.0 I believe) and the latest stuff is 6.1 -- I never found qstart.app --- you use newapp.app which is in the top level of the code book directory when you install it.
The other thing you need to look at is the old newsletter articles, especially the one about Bizness Objects. It takes time to digest it all if you are new to Visual Fox Pro and especially if you are new to OOP as I was.
Just going to leafe.com will give you links so you can find the various additional codebook items -- like Geof's great one to many example. (Make sure you download it and work through it!) It was invaluable in helping me understand how to put things together.
I'm still learning about various classes and what they do, what I've found is that most of the methods and procedures are "in" the C-level classes and passed to the I-level classes, you generally want to subclass from the I-level to the a-level. (I subclassed all of i-cntrl to a-cntrl, i-forms to a-forms, etc for example) I found it's advisable to spend time learning what the methods in the C-level classes do and say so that you will understand which controls and forms work best for your specific development situations. I didn't do this at first and became very adept at redoing over and over until I learned to find the right controls/forms for my app rather than trying to reinvent the wheel every time I need a new form!
For me, I needed to get used to vcx vs scx based forms (forms as classes) and using and setting up BizObjs (with Properties added) rather than the VFP native Data Environment.
Also, I had been struggling with understanding the way codebook works in general and have found this forum to be invaluable in asking questions and getting some great answers!
The biggest hang up for me is understanding which methods need to hold what code! And, then to make sure I have properties for every parameter I am passing --- Geof's practice of adding properties to his bizobj's (Business Objects) finally made the whole thing click for me -- and very recently too --- I just went DUHHHHHHHHHHH, so THANKS a MILLION Geof for your great help!
There are tips for Newbies on this forum and the wiki docs help too. If you have specific questions, I might have come across some answers in the past few months of learning this "stuff." You might want to search on "Newbie" some of the old posts here helped me a lot!
Good Luck to you!
Lynette
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