Hi Folks,
I have not been on this forum for awhile, and always consider using Alpha Five for projects. My main current project is more text oriented, references from books and magazines about a Bible verse, although there is a fair amount of stuff there where versatile data management is key. Especially if the URL linkage is built in nicely. (To pages in Google books, to articles on my own disk, etc.)
My main difficulty is more conceptual. I come from a mini-computer world where tracking down code through procedures and programs is rather simple. I found that this whole code "event trigger" mechanism was cumbersome, if I wanted to find out 'what caused what' there was no easy-to-use code repository, stuff is hid here and there (this was in my Alpha Five attempt of two years ago, all Windows-savvy, Alpha Four did not have this problem). This happens on this key, which you find here, this happens on this event, which is over there, a bit on the helter-skelter side, compared to what I am used to and enjoy.
Is this situation unchanged ? Am I missing something ?
I am well aware that Alpha Five has big advantages over many of the alternatives, more robust than Filemaker and Access, inexpensive compared to tools like Clarion and Magic, simpler than Borland-style alternatives and 'one-tool', more database than Ultra Recall and PIM-style alternatives.
However I hesitate to spend the time on the latest version unless I have a bit of a handle on this "difficulty" (perhaps it has been addressed, perhaps there is a a way for it not to be a difficulty).
What can the experts here share with me. My last posts were when the forum was the old-style board !
Shalom,
Steven Avery
Queens, NY
I have not been on this forum for awhile, and always consider using Alpha Five for projects. My main current project is more text oriented, references from books and magazines about a Bible verse, although there is a fair amount of stuff there where versatile data management is key. Especially if the URL linkage is built in nicely. (To pages in Google books, to articles on my own disk, etc.)
My main difficulty is more conceptual. I come from a mini-computer world where tracking down code through procedures and programs is rather simple. I found that this whole code "event trigger" mechanism was cumbersome, if I wanted to find out 'what caused what' there was no easy-to-use code repository, stuff is hid here and there (this was in my Alpha Five attempt of two years ago, all Windows-savvy, Alpha Four did not have this problem). This happens on this key, which you find here, this happens on this event, which is over there, a bit on the helter-skelter side, compared to what I am used to and enjoy.
Is this situation unchanged ? Am I missing something ?
I am well aware that Alpha Five has big advantages over many of the alternatives, more robust than Filemaker and Access, inexpensive compared to tools like Clarion and Magic, simpler than Borland-style alternatives and 'one-tool', more database than Ultra Recall and PIM-style alternatives.
However I hesitate to spend the time on the latest version unless I have a bit of a handle on this "difficulty" (perhaps it has been addressed, perhaps there is a a way for it not to be a difficulty).
What can the experts here share with me. My last posts were when the forum was the old-style board !
Shalom,
Steven Avery
Queens, NY
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