Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 16:29:30 CDT 2012
I'm kicking its tires now. AFAIK it makes no pretence of converting Access apps to the web. Rather, it appeals to Access developers as the logical next step when webification becomes an issue. It also makes no attempt at all to handle or convert VBA code. It has its own coding language called xBasic, whose syntax will be instantly familiar to any Access developer, although the naming conventions are quite different. It has a forms builder with AutoForm, ditto for reports. It has its own file format but can handle just about any back end you can think of, including Access and SQL Server among many others. Besides these differences, one thing really stands out so far: speed. It's way faster than Access. It also comes with a substantial collection of template and tutorial apps, and some video tutorials are available on-line. Finally, a trial version is available for download, so anyone interested can take a peak for themselves. I've exchanged several emails with Richard Rabins of Alpha Five, and he strikes me as very friendly and helpful. I can't speak with any degree of expertise about Alpha Five yet, but I am intrigued and will continue my explorations seriously over the next little while. I could be wrong about this, but I gather that there is no equivalent to the Access RunTime, and that therefore your client would have to acquire her own copy. I'll look into that and either confirm or refute. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Mark Simms <marksimms at verizon.net> wrote: > How does it handle the VBA and events ? > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr