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As a long time xBase developer, I must admit... I hate visual programming. I love the look, but I hate the output for one reason... it's not CODE, and I love to work with good old fashioned code.
Visual tools save some time, but I find I lose more time in hunting around the properties editor and looking for things like hidden attributes and all sorts of embedded things like datasessions, etc... For what it's worth, code is a lot easier for my old-school mind to work with. I can print it, browse through it, share it with people and even dictate it over the phone.
So, when I found out that the class browser allows us to load forms and click a simple "View Class Code" button to view the "Code" I was thrilled!... until I found out that the code it generates is USELESS!
Why do they bother with it? The code it produces cannot be run if it has any pageframes or a number of other common elements.
Does anyone know of another alternative to generating real honest to goodness code from forms or classes? It seems simple enough to write one... and if I find out there are none, I'll write one. I just bugs me that they include one, and it doesn't work.
While I'm on the subject, the late Tom Rettig once wrote a converter that could actually write class files from hard code (but it was for the older versions). Does anyone know of a newer version?
Visual tools save some time, but I find I lose more time in hunting around the properties editor and looking for things like hidden attributes and all sorts of embedded things like datasessions, etc... For what it's worth, code is a lot easier for my old-school mind to work with. I can print it, browse through it, share it with people and even dictate it over the phone.
So, when I found out that the class browser allows us to load forms and click a simple "View Class Code" button to view the "Code" I was thrilled!... until I found out that the code it generates is USELESS!
Why do they bother with it? The code it produces cannot be run if it has any pageframes or a number of other common elements.
Does anyone know of another alternative to generating real honest to goodness code from forms or classes? It seems simple enough to write one... and if I find out there are none, I'll write one. I just bugs me that they include one, and it doesn't work.
While I'm on the subject, the late Tom Rettig once wrote a converter that could actually write class files from hard code (but it was for the older versions). Does anyone know of a newer version?
