Today is my first day working with Codebook after downloading all the files from the Flash web site. What's the quickest way to learn Codebook and what's the learning curve like on average? I am starting work on a new contract that appears to use the Codebook framework. The faster I can learn it and get up to speed using it, the better. I have been reading the Word docs for a few hours and studying the classes for a few hours today. I think my first task will be to add a program or form that reads an unformatted text file into a specific table format that is already part of a project that has codebook framework. Any thoughts, opinions and ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi Steve,

I have been using the CodeBook for a couple of years, and in my judgement, the best way to learn it is to simply dive in by creating a new project. Read about the QStart app in the documentation, and jump in. Make sure you install your VFP on the c: drive, and the CodeBook in c:VFPCodeBook. Create your own projects in the CodeBook directory where the QStart will put them in their own folders.

After creating your new project, creat a table with a few fields. Then subclass the iBizObjForm class to create a Form. Add the iControls library to the Form Controls tool bar to make it easy to place some data entry controls on the form. The class that requires the most intense study is cBizObj(in cBizness). Read everything in its CopyRight method. Once you understand how to subclass and use iBizObj, you are about half way up the learning curve. These are the classes, along with the cDataBehavior class (in cbhavior) that you will use for most of your data updates.

Allow yourself 6-12 months. I trust you have the CodeBook book. It is dated but still quite useful in learning the CodeBook "philosophy". This reading of textfile data into a table that you are talking about is hardly elementary in the context of CodeBook learning.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Javed

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