Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 17:05:18 CDT 2013
XBasic is truly object-oriented (i.e. inheritance + polymorphism) and uses a very consistent dot syntax. Granted, it's quite different than VBA, but a whole lot more powerful. I'd say that the only fair comparison is to Visual Studio, and given the choice between a free copy of each, I'd take Alpha Anywhere anyday, as it were. Write an app once, connect it to any ODBC database you wish, or even to an Access MDB, and run it anywhere -- smart phone, tablet, or web on a desktop/laptop, with no changes to the code. >From the POV of an Access developer is how disconcerting it can feel initially how little code you have to write. There are dozens of wizards and "genies", which vaguely relate to the primitive Access wizards and the property sheets of forms and controls. Alpha Anywhere exposes many more events for these controls (that's a good thing). The names of the events are occasionally the same, but often are synonyms. I'm at work on producing a map between Access events at the application, form and control levels, and their AA equivalents, as my small "Pay It Forward" contribution to the community. Finally, AA provides a wealth of videos that show you, step by step, how to accomplish various tasks and build apps. Download the trial, run through the samples (some of them are for web-apps and some for desktop apps, and one or two illustrate an introduction to XBasic code). Access developers feeling daunted by the complexity of doing a web app using whatever tools MS provides need to download an AA trial and devote a weekend to walking through the samples. A few of them are a tad lame, but most of them demonstrate the ease of designing and running an app. Arthur On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Charlotte Foust <charlotte.foust at gmail.com > wrote: > Arthur, > > I did download it, but I didn't feel inclined to learn yet another dialect > of Basic, especially when I saw the price! > > Charlotte > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Regarding web development, I have abandoned everything Access and > switched > > entirely to Alpha Anywhere. It's so much more powerful and flexible that > > there is no comparison. The XBasic programming is so much more powerful > > than VBA it's ridiculous. From a web point of view perhaps the most > > amazing thing is Write Once, Play Anywhere. The same app will run on > smart > > phones, tablets, and traditional web browsers. It supports HTML5, > > Javascript and several others. It talks to every conceivable back end. > Its > > sample apps blow the doors off the few and trivial samples offered with > > Access. I could go on, but instead I'll just suggest that you download a > > copy of the trial version and take it for a spin. Tell 'em I sent ya :) > > > > Arthur > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Carolyn Johnson <cjlabs at att.net> wrote: > > > > > You can't open a 2000 version database in 2013? Uggh. That explains > > > all the crashing. I have several databases that I've kept as 2000 > > format > > > because I still have users with it (well, maybe not now, but I still > have > > > 2003 users and I like 2000 better). > > > > > > I've had 3 people using 2013 that say the database won't open. Since > I > > > don't have 2013, I haven't been able to look at it yet. Sounds like I > > > have the answer. And some work to do. > > > > > > > > > Carolyn Johnson > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Charlotte Foust > > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:44 PM > > > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2012 Development > > > > > > > > > Do you mean Access 2013, Arthur? I have it as part of Office 365. > The > > > big > > > gotcha in it is that you can't convert open earlier than 2003 from > > 2013. > > > There are some new capabilities but for desktop type development, > they > > > aren't relevant, only if you're using sharepoint, building web apps, > or > > > using LightStream. > > > > > > Charlotte > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Arthur Fuller < > > fuller.artful at gmail.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Not much traffic here lately. Has anyone used Access 2012 for > > > development? > > > > IF so, does it offer much that 2007 and 2010 don't? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Arthur > > > > Cell: 647.710.1314 > > > > > > > > Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. > > > > -- Niels Bohr > > > > -- > > > > AccessD mailing list > > > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > -- > > > AccessD mailing list > > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > > > AccessD mailing list > > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Arthur > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur