Automatic Data Entry

[Peter De Berdt]

On 27 Oct 2004, at 14:07, Kim Kohen wrote:

> G'day Peter
>
>> you'll soon discover all the repeating and tedious work you
>> need to do in Filemaker simply isn't necessary.
> ••••
> Get ready for a lot more of this type of question given that RS are 
> offering
> Realbasic professional edition for half price to FMP users.  I just 
> ordered
> it today because it was cheaper than getting the upgrade from standard 
> to
> professional.
>

No problem, I'm a full time Filemaker developer, but my former job I 
was a fulltime REALbasic developer. I still prefer RB over FM, but 
one's gotta do what the boss wants you to :-)

> Maybe paradigma could offer a similar deal for valentina:)
>

I don't think this is necessary: Filemaker Server is more expensive 
than Valentina Server, less performant. REALbasic's reduction deal 
makes it cheaper than one Filemaker license, and you don't have an 
extra per-user license cost. Even if you would opt for e.g. Openbase 
and have ± 5 users, you are making profit over buying FM Server + 5 
licenses. You just have to take a bit of extra time into account to 
design a decent framework. Once you have your framework, development 
time is even less than Filemaker. Even the plug-ins for REALbasic, if 
you would need them, are so cheap (Einhugur + Monkeybread for example).

Ruslan, is the database now automatically adding fields if the 
object-structure is changed (instead of having to open the valentina db 
as a generic database, altering the structure and then initializing the 
subclass)?

Best regards

Peter De Berdt