by debewerker » Sun Aug 10, 2014 6:17 pm
Recently I moved my databases from access to base. It took me three months, and not only most of the evenings, and a lot of perseverance to obtain the same functionality.
Sources of information are the 'books' by Pitonyak, the API is may be understandible, but not pratical (shows no program lines). That is a choice, but does not help with a fluent and gradual application of base. I can apply and admit that a I still have only about a vague idea of the context of, and relations between form - databasetables - formcontroller, and that I do use the forum as a practical entrance to find solutions for the wanted functionality. It is clear that that is a time consuming route.
On the other hand I do know how to handle the forms, set its 'command', couple master and slave fields and so on. In other words: manual operation poses no problems, it becomes difficult to do the same via a VBA routine. Where is the property/method in the two pages and more subpages when MRI'ing an object.
Therefore I want to suggest another type of documentation that relates properties from forms, subforms, and controls directly to program code that gives an example to read/set/use the property or method. A link to the code can be a short-cut key when the cursor is on the property field, like F1.
In the ideal situation, when landing on the code suggestion page, there is an extension to non existing properties of an object but very much looked after functionality. Control functionality like: field.setfocus or form.close or form.currentfieldfocus, non-existent in the property panels and realised in program code via other objects, but it supplies a simple entrance to the user.
code can be supplied by the forum users, and the documentation structure by ?
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