New fp features?

[Stanley - stanlyn-com]

Hi Walter,

> Not having right or left hasn't been that much a deal breaker
I agree that the right and left functions in and of itself is not a deal
breaker, however this is just the tip of the ice berg.  The deal breakers
for us was the screen size, scrolling fields and memos, to name a few of the
biggies...

I too, use these and other videos to learn the new stuff and it works very
well as almost all are high quality.  To add to the list of high quality
video training providers is Lynda and Train Signal... 

> Once I as able to link "how would I do this without thinking in filePro"
the light bulb went off
Yes, going from filePro to VFP, VB, SQL, .Net, or C# is completely different
as we no longer think in just the if:then way, as we now have a similar
if:else:endif, case statements, and iif(), (which is an immediate if) just
to name a few.  The only thing that filepro on unix helped me with was
learning multi-user processes and concepts.  I started with filepro16+ on a
tandy6000, so I was forced early on to do multi-user stuff which serves me
well even today in all technologies.  And, I learned dos many years later.

What are you replacing your fp apps with?

Thanks, Stanley







-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces+stanley=stanlyn.com at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+stanley=stanlyn.com at lists.celestial.com] On
Behalf Of Walter Vaughan
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:01 AM
To: filePro
Subject: Re: New fp features?

Stanley - stanlyn-com wrote:

>Yes Walter, there are a lot of parallels, except that there are 
>virtually no limits on the current technologies.  If you can dream it, 
>you can build it... (and that's nice)
>
>Are you using the latest fp, if so, what can you say about the other 
>questions I had concerning fp?
>
>Thanks, Stanley
>
No I am using 5.0.14 on FreeBSD. I was the lone person who was scared of
both SCO and Linux during the court cases. BSD had already won their
freedom.

Not having right or left hasn't been that much a deal breaker. I still have
to read up to know when to use DLEN or LEN

Probably this summer we will be winding down our remaining production
filePro applications.

And back to the video link I had posted. I get nothing from it, it's just
that the quality and volume of the videos are extremely good.
If you want to watch the videos online, it's $99/year. Want to own the
DVD's?, it's $1,200 PER TOPIC. There are probably 20 or more topics on just
ASP.net alone. http://www.learnnowonline.com/learndevnow

If I could fingure out how to do in just a afternoon, I could put together a
non-trivial video comparison of developing a simple app in filePro and doing
the same thing with Visual Studio Web Developer using asp.net methodologies.
Once I as able to link "how would I do this without thinking in filePro" the
light bulb went off. Maybe it would help someone. And the best way to learn
something solid is to teach it. 
Hummm...
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