Re: Code generator

In article <60bg0m$pn8@news.informix.com>, Paul Roberts <proberts@lynx.informix.com> writes >I have used Informate and I think it generates great code. It took me a >little while to get the hang of it, but that is just me. You can generate >applications with all sorts of nice features for essentially zero effort. > >Informate comes from Mountfield Software. > >Sales Office: 74 Preston Drove > Brighton > East Sussex BN1 6LB > UK > >Tel: (UK) 0273 565888 FAX: (UK) 0273 557138 > >Tom Spouse was my account manager. > >These are my opinions only of course; I don't speak for Informix or for >my department or for anyone except myself. > > - Paul > I too have used Informate - in fact I met the main devleoper of Informate (John W?) who had it on a prtoable and was enhancing it in fornt of me!!! [ Something about a form painter but that was ~2 years ago]. Good product but had it's limitations - anything beyond Master/Detail required bespoke coding. Once you had done bespoke code that was it, you could no longer use the code generator. -- David Williams