Automatic Data Entry

[Chuck Pelto]

P.S. I'm going to use my venerated FMP to help me model the database 
system structure I'll implement in REALbasic/Valentina.

On Oct 28, 2004, at 5:49 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote:

>
> On Oct 28, 2004, at 3:54 PM, Kim Kohen wrote:
>
>>> Then Valentina 2 will rock your head :-)
>> ••••
>> Hmmm, I'm afraid I'm struggling with Valentina. It appears from the
>> tutorials and list discussion that it's so OO it seems I'll need to 
>> learn a
>> hell of a lot more RB/OOP before I can use it effectively. I'm 
>> surprised
>> because I had a MySQL app running in no time using RB and simple SQL
>> statements.
>
> Unfortunately, the tutorials, all of them, are not very good. 
> Especially if one is new to SQL. I've addressed this with Ruslan. 
> Hopefully, he'll have time to sort that out, as a good tutorial is a 
> good selling point for a product like this.
>
>> I'd really like to use Valentina because there are great merits in 
>> being
>> able to use the same code for a single or multi user application but 
>> I'm now
>> resigning myself to RBD for single user and MySQL (where I feel pretty
>> comfortable) for multi user - at least until I learn more RB.
>
> I need a mult-user SQL database system. The product we're moving into 
> the 21st Century was of that sort. That's why we went with Valentina. 
> However, the learning curve has been something of a burden. And, I'm 
> sure, it will continue to be something of that for a bit longer. But 
> at least the slope is not quite so steep.
>
> I can come up with work-arounds on the matters of automatic data 
> entry. That's not too much of a problem. But it would be a nice 
> feature to see available. Especially the serial number aspect.
>
> I've not read all of the e-mail on this subject, yet. Been away most 
> of the day. I'll likely have more comments come tomorrow.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chuck
>