I'm progressing well on my journey to upgrade a large V1 application to V11, largely because of the friendly assistance I've received here on the forums. "Alphaholics" are a great breed.
I'd like to impose on your time to help me in two areas:
1. Conversion of Reports and Labels - I've converted enough forms to realize the strong compatibility between the old and new versions of A5. I'd appreciate any comments regarding these objects. Is the syntax close enough that it's intuitive how to code V11 Reports? If not, what should I be reading?
2. Conversion of V1 Scripts. I'm attaching one of my more difficult scripts (it would be nice if you thought it was a piece of cake). I would appreciate your guidance as to how to proceed once you've seen the script.
If there are higher level tools in V11 than I had available in V1 which may enable replacing a fair amount of XBASIC, that would be wonderful. If so, please tell me where to look (I find that an overview of the technical tools is a bit hard to come by). If not, does the A5V11 documentation have any information aimed at converting XBASIC syntax, especially use of "cards" to the equivalent A11 syntax.
That's about it. I look forward to any comments.
The attached script is from an invoicing application. It asks the user to specify a time period for selection of sales information so that it can summarize totals of # of purchases and $ value of those purchases. That information is stored in the Customer table for subsequent querying. My son uses this information to decide who to mail his catalog to.
Here it is (hopefully). Thanks again ... Sam
a5v1script.txt
I'd like to impose on your time to help me in two areas:
1. Conversion of Reports and Labels - I've converted enough forms to realize the strong compatibility between the old and new versions of A5. I'd appreciate any comments regarding these objects. Is the syntax close enough that it's intuitive how to code V11 Reports? If not, what should I be reading?
2. Conversion of V1 Scripts. I'm attaching one of my more difficult scripts (it would be nice if you thought it was a piece of cake). I would appreciate your guidance as to how to proceed once you've seen the script.
If there are higher level tools in V11 than I had available in V1 which may enable replacing a fair amount of XBASIC, that would be wonderful. If so, please tell me where to look (I find that an overview of the technical tools is a bit hard to come by). If not, does the A5V11 documentation have any information aimed at converting XBASIC syntax, especially use of "cards" to the equivalent A11 syntax.
That's about it. I look forward to any comments.
The attached script is from an invoicing application. It asks the user to specify a time period for selection of sales information so that it can summarize totals of # of purchases and $ value of those purchases. That information is stored in the Customer table for subsequent querying. My son uses this information to decide who to mail his catalog to.
Here it is (hopefully). Thanks again ... Sam
a5v1script.txt
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