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- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: FoxPro2 & Paradox 3.5 questions -
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.135005.6705@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1480@dsinet>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:50:05 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- sandyc@elroy (Sandy Cox ) writes:
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- > I would appreciate any one who has had experience
- > With FoxProx (2.0) and Paradox (3.5) answering some questions
- > for me. My company is researching both Database products.
-
- > 3) In FoxPro documentation it seems fairly easy to create screens and
- > menus. I can't see anywhere in Paradox documentation how one would
- > create a screen ( not a form) and if you have a way could you please
- > give a straight forward example..?
-
- In a Paradox script, the keywords TEXT and ENDTEXT delimit literal information
- that will be put on the screen (at the current cursor position). You can
- then use @ and ACCEPT to read in variables.
- Menus are created with SHOWMENU. It is very clearly explained in the manual,
- with code fragments.
-
- > 4) What are the pros and cons of one database package over another?
- > I mean when one gets into the nitty gritty development, which one
- > is better? and faster to develop in...
-
- I'm not qualified to give an analysis of FoxPro, but I've used Paradox for
- a couple of years now and I like it. It has its anomalies, like Form
- Locking (above and beyond WL, PWL, FL, and PFL) which can make multi user
- programming "interesting"; you'll need to use suboptimal algorithms in some
- places where full locking is not practical (e.g. SCANing a table in Form
- View to make global changes), but it works. I'm looking forward to getting
- my copy of 4.0. Paradox also includes a lot of development add-ons, such
- as the Paradox Runtime and the Paradox Engine (for interface to C and Pascal).
- Of course, FoxPro is Xbase, and there's a lot out there for that too, like
- custom form and screen designers.
- Paradox interfaces to Quattro Pro too.
-
- -JTT
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