What should fp 6.0 look like?

[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:

>>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Walter Vaughan shouted:

>>I'd like a professional IDE. Not character based. We gotta kill the 
>>Tandy DT-100 mentality. Color coded with building block icons. 

> I have to partially disagree.  I have never, and will never believe that
> full-scale data entry belongs in a GUI.  

No. The environment the developer works in. Right hand column with all 
the files/tables/outputs/screens/layouts/values in a tree/folder layout.
I should be able to popup a file layout and dock it on the screen.
Make developers more efficient.

Intellegently cut and paste from existing tables. With a mouse like 
normal people.

Developing in a GUI. The need to juggle many items of data at a moment, 
and see several at the same time.

Why can't you when writing a browse lookup have preview window show you 
what will/would be displayed or at least what it could look like?

I want something *better* than the tools available to the 
LAMP[0]/FAMP[1] crowd like the Zend Development Environment.

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Walter
[0] Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP
[1] FreeBSD - Apache - MySQL - PHP