Bob W. took the time to reduce our comments about improving the desktop development tools to a wishlist summary. That thread took a turn towards that had less and less to do with a wishlist of improvement of the desktop. Feeling this is an important list and should not get lost in other discussions I took the liberty of pulling out Bob's original summary and a couple of other comments that followed. I know I missed some things. I feel we really need to keep this list in front of Alpha Software.
***I would respectfully ask to keep any following posts in the thread to things you feel would improvement Alpha Five in the area of desktop development. Please start a new thread for other kinds of comments. ***
Bob's original summary:
Much of the discussion centred on the desire to make xdialogue a lot easier and quicker to use in terms of formatting, fonts and colours.
Most people seem to want to move away from the �bound objects� paradigm that Alpha uses with its forms etc and move towards Xdialogue with the aim of making systems more cross platform (web and desktop) compatible.
Fix the browse once and for all and improve scrolling on large forms
Plus Would it be too much to ask that the browse in a main form could have more than one line/per record?
Desktop calendar component � preferably with drag and drop functionality
Fix or abandon Installmaker (several comments)
Simple clean method for updating client systems
Compiler � has long been talked about
Better support for Windows 8 and guidance for configuring older version to run on Windows 8
Improvements to built-in email capability including easier ways to display previous emails and printing of logs plus better support for batch emailing.
Ability to auto-add time fields to a dbf using the add-fields function
64 bit support
Updated styles � dialogues look very dated
Ability to use CSS style skins
Allow desktop Web components be created in Desktop control panel so you don't have application objects scattered in different places.
Improve the control panel so comments can be added etc
Cross platform compatability using an Xbasic emulator, Real Studio gaining momentum with this capability
Ios capability with local storage � Filemaker GO offers this already and it looks and works very well
Attached below (hopefully) is a more complete distillation of the relevant postings
Extracts of comments in thread.pdf
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Added to the thread after Bob's summary:
I would like to see unbound forms added. Right now myself and others create a dummy or empty table so we can create a blank form to hold objects such as buttons, etc. It would be nice to not have a create a table to have an empty form object.
The A5 default database would be a form of SQL.
***I would respectfully ask to keep any following posts in the thread to things you feel would improvement Alpha Five in the area of desktop development. Please start a new thread for other kinds of comments. ***
Bob's original summary:
Much of the discussion centred on the desire to make xdialogue a lot easier and quicker to use in terms of formatting, fonts and colours.
Most people seem to want to move away from the �bound objects� paradigm that Alpha uses with its forms etc and move towards Xdialogue with the aim of making systems more cross platform (web and desktop) compatible.
Fix the browse once and for all and improve scrolling on large forms
Plus Would it be too much to ask that the browse in a main form could have more than one line/per record?
Desktop calendar component � preferably with drag and drop functionality
Fix or abandon Installmaker (several comments)
Simple clean method for updating client systems
Compiler � has long been talked about
Better support for Windows 8 and guidance for configuring older version to run on Windows 8
Improvements to built-in email capability including easier ways to display previous emails and printing of logs plus better support for batch emailing.
Ability to auto-add time fields to a dbf using the add-fields function
64 bit support
Updated styles � dialogues look very dated
Ability to use CSS style skins
Allow desktop Web components be created in Desktop control panel so you don't have application objects scattered in different places.
Improve the control panel so comments can be added etc
Cross platform compatability using an Xbasic emulator, Real Studio gaining momentum with this capability
Ios capability with local storage � Filemaker GO offers this already and it looks and works very well
Attached below (hopefully) is a more complete distillation of the relevant postings
Extracts of comments in thread.pdf
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Added to the thread after Bob's summary:
I would like to see unbound forms added. Right now myself and others create a dummy or empty table so we can create a blank form to hold objects such as buttons, etc. It would be nice to not have a create a table to have an empty form object.
The A5 default database would be a form of SQL.
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