Re: NewEra 3. Worth the wait?

In article <864748740.24429.0.nnrp-4.c2de7bed@news.demon.co.uk>, Michael Andreasen <michael@newsoft.demon.co.uk> writes >Here are a few points I have come across while looking at NewEra version 3. >Does anyone have any comments? > >1. The 3D effect on ixTextBox and ixListBox. I don't like it; it only looks ok >if your window's background color is Grey. We have developed, in NewEra 2, our >own 3D effect by drawing lines around an object that are slightly darker and >slightly lighter than the window's background color (whatever that color is). >Now all our programs look tacky due to a horrid Grey shading around visual >objects. Can the Informix attempt at shading be turned off? > >2. Codewright. I like Codewright as an editor, but it does not appear to be >very well integrated with NewEra version 3. Having to call in Codewright to >edit your code, then save it in Codewright, then save it in window painter... >hardly seamless integration is it? If you only wanted to make a minor change >to your code, then it is easier to do so with version 2. Codewright could be >setup to compile NewEra 2 programs directly, this ability seems to have been >lost with the move to version 3, since you can't pass all the necessary >command line parameters to the NewEra 3 compiler. > >3. I haven't used OLE before version 3, so I may not be in the best position >to comment on the version 3 implementation, but it does seem to be lacking in >areas. If you have some text and want to edit it in word then this can be done >(as in the example in the sports database). However, the NE application starts >up word as a separate application, I though it would be possible to edit the >text directly in the NE application, I'm sure I've seen this type of thing >done elsewhere. In the sports example; If you find a record with text on it >and call word in to edit it, then save it from word back to the application, >the text doesn't get displayed correctly in the NewEra window, the lines get >truncated. > >In a large number of areas NewEra 3 doesn't seem to be all that much of an >improvement over version 2. In some areas it even seems to be a step back. > >This product seems to be along way behind other development tools and >languages. Where are the GUI trees? The Application Builder uses them, why >isn't there a visual class for them? Where are the list boxes with graphical >objects in? I want all the goodies that are in the Microsoft AFC classes for >Java! > >When I use version 3 I feel I am working with an "old" windows 3 tool, not a >brand new Windows 95/NT tool. > > Any comment from Informix? --- I think not! -- Mike Ripley