Re: How To Code MsgBox
SUCCESS!!!! The confirm box works beautifully and the code I was trying to execute is testing perfectly. Thank you, again, Selwyn... that helps a lot in my decision making process about whether Alpha might be able to do what I might need in the future should I ever decide to take a web app further than simple extras for my builders.
Peter, thanks for saying that about the CHS program complexity. The form I was trying to replicate was an extremely simple form in Access, didn't do much except allow a user to add to a list of parent categories to be used in several related child tables. It also allowed the user to delete the category IF it had not been used in the child tables. That's ALL, and it took many, many lines of code in Alpha to accomplish what a few lines of code in Access did.
Most of the other several hundred forms in CHS are WAY, WAY, WAY more complex than this one, many of which have tons of lines of code in Access. So, I can only imagine how many lines of code these would require for a web app. And I haven't even begun to address the hundreds of reports. It WOULD be an absolutely HUGE job to migrate CHS to a web app. I'm not sure how much time Selwyn has spent looking around at all the videos and features in CHS on my web site, but I think he is underestimating the task. That's ok, cuz with this latest exercise and his efforts, I am starting to see a glimmer of possibility, though. (and at the very LEAST, a year or more of dedicated hard work, probably more.... yeah, right, that's what I thought when I started the CHS project... and NINE SOLID YEARS of development later.... :).
I literally get no bug or fix it calls from my several hundred CHS customers. And they do ALL of their accounting, job costing, payroll, etc., etc., and run their businesses using it every day and depend on it. CHS is very, very solid and so, of course, it makes me very leary of doing ANYTHING that would introduce instability.
My evaluation of Alpha has resulted in some bug fixes and enhancements that Selwyn has handled. While the need for fixes has caused me concern, I am also calmed by the fast handling of them, and would hope that would continue once I am a real customer. I know that no builder would have purchased CHS if they had encountered more than one 'fix' that needed to be done during their evaluation. However, I am a developer, so have an understanding of what Alpha is going through, whereas my builders won't.
Carol King
Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions software
http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com
SUCCESS!!!! The confirm box works beautifully and the code I was trying to execute is testing perfectly. Thank you, again, Selwyn... that helps a lot in my decision making process about whether Alpha might be able to do what I might need in the future should I ever decide to take a web app further than simple extras for my builders.
Peter, thanks for saying that about the CHS program complexity. The form I was trying to replicate was an extremely simple form in Access, didn't do much except allow a user to add to a list of parent categories to be used in several related child tables. It also allowed the user to delete the category IF it had not been used in the child tables. That's ALL, and it took many, many lines of code in Alpha to accomplish what a few lines of code in Access did.
Most of the other several hundred forms in CHS are WAY, WAY, WAY more complex than this one, many of which have tons of lines of code in Access. So, I can only imagine how many lines of code these would require for a web app. And I haven't even begun to address the hundreds of reports. It WOULD be an absolutely HUGE job to migrate CHS to a web app. I'm not sure how much time Selwyn has spent looking around at all the videos and features in CHS on my web site, but I think he is underestimating the task. That's ok, cuz with this latest exercise and his efforts, I am starting to see a glimmer of possibility, though. (and at the very LEAST, a year or more of dedicated hard work, probably more.... yeah, right, that's what I thought when I started the CHS project... and NINE SOLID YEARS of development later.... :).
I literally get no bug or fix it calls from my several hundred CHS customers. And they do ALL of their accounting, job costing, payroll, etc., etc., and run their businesses using it every day and depend on it. CHS is very, very solid and so, of course, it makes me very leary of doing ANYTHING that would introduce instability.
My evaluation of Alpha has resulted in some bug fixes and enhancements that Selwyn has handled. While the need for fixes has caused me concern, I am also calmed by the fast handling of them, and would hope that would continue once I am a real customer. I know that no builder would have purchased CHS if they had encountered more than one 'fix' that needed to be done during their evaluation. However, I am a developer, so have an understanding of what Alpha is going through, whereas my builders won't.
Carol King
Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions software
http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com
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