Roy,

<< Its this terminology thing again. When I originally asked for it my brain
was thinking table properties since that's what I spend most of my time in
EDBManager playing with. As is common in the IT world you have superbly
delivered what was asked for, not what I wanted <vbg>.

Can I put in another request (if you have any Fkeys left over) for one to
take me back to the table properties. >>

I'll see if I can come up with a scheme that allows for special hotkeys for
each object.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim

Sorry to be a nuisance.


I bet you wish you could just write the engine and forget the UI. If so I have sympathy since I'm still working my way through the TMS controls finding out where and how to set the colours so I can allow the users to skin the app. There are a few where their stylers alter the font as well as the colours - great when you have a very carefully designed form.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< Sorry to be a nuisance. >>

Not at all.  The utilities are part of the product, so they need just as
much attention.  I'm just not quite as good with the UI design and
development.  I got luck with DBISAM because it was simple.

<< I bet you wish you could just write the engine and forget the UI. If so I
have sympathy since I'm still working my way through the TMS controls
finding out where and how to set the colours so I can allow the users to
skin the app. There are a few where their stylers alter the font as well as
the colours - great when you have a very carefully designed form. >>

Well, I think that the EDB Manager UI is finally starting to settle down a
bit and stabilize.  It's working pretty well now, so as long as I don't
touch anything ever again, things should be fine.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim



>Not at all. The utilities are part of the product, so they need just as
>much attention. I'm just not quite as good with the UI design and
>development.

If you ever need help you have a raft of people here who spend more time on UI than anything else.

>I got luck with DBISAM because it was simple.

Totally disagree - DBSys was simple, elegant and very good at what it did. It helped that DBISAM was a nice user friendly product and much more suited to the PC style of development. I do agree though that its a lot simpler than ElevateDB, especially measured in the hair pulling out stakes <vbg>

>Well, I think that the EDB Manager UI is finally starting to settle down a
>bit and stabilize. It's working pretty well now, so as long as I don't
>touch anything ever again, things should be fine.

Hmm, I think I'll try that approach with a few apps; but being marketing savvy I'll call it product stabilisation

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< Hmm, I think I'll try that approach with a few apps; but being marketing
savvy I'll call it product stabilisation >>

How about "product and personnel stabilization plan" ?

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim

><< Hmm, I think I'll try that approach with a few apps; but being marketing
>savvy I'll call it product stabilisation >>
>
>How about "product and personnel stabilization plan" ?

Not after sampling a few of the local product ....

Roy Lambert