Jim Dettman
jimdettman at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 4 08:58:00 CST 2004
John, I hate to mention VFP on the Access list, but in terms of Frameworks it has many and the features that they offer are listed here: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FrameworkFeatureChart~VFP Items compared are things like Developer Tools, End User Features, etc. Quite a bit of info there on frameworks in general. If you wanted to look at one more specifically, I use VMP, which has a downloadable help file that you can look at. You can find that here: http://www.visionds.com/vmpsite/ Look under VMP 2004, Download VMPHELP.CHM Jim Dettman President, Online Computer Services of WNY, Inc. (315) 699-3443 jimdettman at earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John W. Colby Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:44 PM To: AccessD Subject: [AccessD] Frameworks, what are they? Robert, The only example I have of a running framework is my own. Unfortunately it is so complex at this point it would be undecipherable to anyone but me I'm afraid. You have heard me discuss the various functionalities I have placed into my framework. In order to understand my stuff you would have to wade through all that stuff I have mentioned. I am certainly willing to post it somewhere with an application that uses it so that you can see how I do things but I'm truly uncertain whether a discussion could address my framework without getting pretty deep pretty fast. A framework is really nothing more than a skeleton upon which you hang an application. As you need more functionality, if it is generic and useful to the next app you add it to the framework. In this day and age, you really need to be thinking classes however since they allow you to set up containers for related functionality. I am going to cc the list however. We have many developers who have developed their own framework. I have never seen anyone else's so I can't vouch for how complex they are now how conceptually similar to what I do, but if we address the list, perhaps we can get a discussion going on this stuff. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: Robert Gracie [mailto:Robert at servicexp.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:18 PM To: jcolby at colbyconsulting.com Subject: I have a question John, I have really appreciated the help over the last few months in regards to "DEEP" programming, your examples have been very helpful. I'm intrigued with "framework" idea however I have no idea where to get started. My question is; do you have any examples of a running "framework", or any books that explain how to set this sort of thing up? Thanks Again!! Robert Gracie -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com