Re: NewEra programers

My 2 cents worth: After a few years writing NewEra apps and now trying to write Java apps in Visual C@fe, I want my SuperTables back!! Visual C@fe's dbaware grid doesn't have much to offer and Roguewave's grid control for dbaware operations isn't much better. In Visual C@fe's dbaware grid, I get the quantity from a cell, multiply it by a factor, and set the value back in the cell. The first row's new value is displayed and all the others new values are not displayed. The values have changed underneath, however, because when I save the rows the new values are saved. Tech support at Visual C@fe said that their grids were written to have keyboard entry, not program entry. Roguewave's controls are supposed to be the "top of the line" and they have no column property sheets, etc. While other IDEs may have more showy, beautiful, and snappy controls, NewEra is leaps and bounds over these because of substance. (Cooling off now) Paige isn't At 12:49 PM 11/24/98 +0100, Dirk Gunsthoevel <gunstho@uni-muenster.de> wrote: >I add myself here... > >We have a medium size development project here. >6 programmers involved. > >Unlike most other ppl we are satisfied with >NewEra - it fits our needs. > >Its a mixture of NE2.2 and NE3.1 right now. >About 200 client machines are involved. >NewEra is only used for the clients. All >server side code is written in C. > >The only reason why we are planning to change >to something else (maybe Java) next certury >is that it will not be supported forever. > >What we like about the language is that it >is object oriented enough (which was completely >new to the programmers who work for my >customer) and that it is close to 4GL and >therefore easy to learn for them. > >I am more of a C programmer myself. I always >hated the shortcomings of the tools involved >but not the language itself. > >I must add however that we never planned to >use anythind else but Informix for the server >side. > >The whole program now is rather big (about >300 windows involved). Is this actually the >only success story with NewEra? > >In Germany I only see some minor projects >and a lot of failures. > >Regards, >Dirk > >-- >-- Dirk Gunsthoevel phone: +49 (0)251 624947 >-- Hoeftestr.49 fax: +49 (0)251 624177 >-- 48167 Muenster mobile: +49 (0)171 8047582 >-- Germany http://members.aol.com/Plabit/welcome.html > C. Paige Miller Consulting P.O. Box 467066 Atlanta, GA 31146-7066 Phone: 770-521-1506 Fax: 770-521-1506