Well, I downloaded it and was able to run the dabodemo stuff by following your
instructions on the WIKI pages about installing dabo. I enjoyed the demo
immensely, especially the behind the scenes. I even modified one of the screens
files to see what would happen. (Just changed the range on one of the spinners.)
I saved the changes and voila! it changed! Neat!
So there's no IDE yet. Well that explains why I couldn't find one.
Where do I sign up for the dabo email list. If it is of a similar caliber to
this fox list, I can't wait to jump in.
I also would like some ideas on good stuff to help me get up to speed with
PostgresSQL. i.e. What would be a quick way to migrate/recreate my present
database in VFP to PosgresSQL? Would it make sense to write a VFP app to read
the VFP database structure and recreate it in PostgresSQL? Personally I think it
would be more productive to do it the other way.. i.e. from PostgresSQL, reads
VFP structures and creates it in PostgresSQL. That way I would be learning how
to do something in PostgresSQL not in fox.
Another question: I installed Python 2.5. It came with what looked like to
editors.. PythonWin or a command line one. Is there a difference in the
functionality of either? The windows one seems a little easier to navigate in.
Also, in my fox projects I set up directories under the root directory for the
project thusly:
Root
- Bitmaps - images used by the application
- Classes - base classes used by application
- Forms - Forms in application
- Menus - application menus
- Progs - application programs
- System - usually the dbc, system control files, are stored here
- Reports - application reports
- TmpFiles - test code, etc... stuff that can be deleted without problems.-
temporary place to store code mods not fully tested
and if the Data is local to the machine, a Data directory
Does this make sense to carry this forward? i.e. a DaboProjects directory with
the structure as above - how do I path to this? In my projects in fox, I have a
small load program that paths all directories for that project on startup.
I've watched your screen casts (all of them) and wow, it really looks like I
could make an application happen.
I realize I'm asking a lot of questions and thank you for your time and support.
Thanks again,
Mike
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