Re: New Era: Your Opinion

On 9 Jul 1995, Scott McClintock wrote: > Disagree!!! SuperTables & SuperFields, whilst they have some limitations > (we have had to do one thing without them so far) provide a level of > control and flexibility that is very impressive for a Version 1.00 > product. The stuff we're doing is definitely not trivial either! > > Firstly, assuming that you're using the ixTextBox class, the argument > to setText is simply char(*) not ixString.... further more, I have yet > to find a case where I have to qualify ixApp functions (ie ixApp::), > intelligent use of object naming conventions will generally resolve > that... speaking of naming conventions, surely you could dream up > something better than Window1_WN.Label192_LD which the window painter > probably came up with. Try it this way: > > Call CustomerWin.WelcomeLine.setText("Hello") > > You can even drop the CustomerWin if the particular piece of code is > inside an extension to the ixWindow class.... Now is that really much > harder than Visual Basic?? > > > We've been through this process of choosing a GUI development tool for > windows/Informix client server and chose NewEra for the following reasons. > > 1) Database Performance: We could not find an ODBC implementation that > ran as fast as NewEra over INet. > > 2) Ease of Database access. Database access (especially for simple things > is VERY easy and straight forward in NewEra (ie Informix 4GL heritage). > Visual Basic frustrated us greatly in this regard. > > 3) We felt that for a version 1.00 product (we now have 1.1) it was very > robust so we felt confident about its future. > > 4) We gave some (though not too much) weight to the fact that it was > an Informix product and we were already working with Informix Engines. > > So far we have been happy with our decision. NewEra does have its > problems however (so what doesn't?). The cumbersome development > environment stands out as one of these. Also its seems to be a bit of a > resource hog for development purposes (I used to think MS-Access was bad!!). > Yes there is also a limited number of controls available in the Window > Painter. However, Informix promise us great things re this in the near > future (Ver 2.00 in August I believe) including support for OCX's. > > If you would like me to answer some specific questions, feel free to email > me. > > cheeers > > Scott. > > Scott, Have you looked at PassPort? I think NewEra is a good tool. I hope that version 2.0 will be a lot better. Matt