Re: Getting started - Interfacing questions

> I think that is necessary to some extent. We have
> to start somewhere.
> The only problem is that if you get quite a large
> code base, sometimes
> you have to knock down a whole building and then
> start almost from the
> ground up. What I'm referring to here is seeing a
> major hunk of code
> that needs to be completely redone. If this is a
> production system, it
> can get troublesome.
>
> One case in point is the records-keeping system that
> I'm considering
> converting to a postgresql database system. I
> originally wrote it
> several years ago. It was and still is text based
> in its terminal
> support. It originally depended upon termcap
> support - written for an
> entirely different system than Linux or Windows. A
> while back, I
> decided to convert it to curses terminal support.
> Throughout the
> program, there are several menus to deal with. Each
> routine had to be
> rewritten and it took quite a bit of time and work
> before everything was
> working (practically) foolproof again. Of course, I
> doubt if one would
> come across such a drastic change as that with what
> we are concerned
> with here.

i agree. don't get me wrong, i've done a ton of
research and the good folks here have helped out
tremendously. it does make sense to avoid the big
traps early on. i'm thinking of issues like oop and
the use of functions. the code is basically the same,
it is just how it is structured and called. i'm doing
it inefficiently and i will likely redo it later at
som cost.

in the meantime, though, i'm actually creating forms
that work instead of reading a textbook and banging my
head ;-) i'm also learning why that cool stuff is
cool and when i look back into it, i will have a
practical knowledgebase that will provide some context
for me.

> No, as I said in another message, I don't even have
> a Windows system
> that supports NTFS, plus the fact that I prefer to
> stay away from
> windows as much as possible.

i hear ya!

> Perhaps. I have OOo 1.1.2 ... I haven't looked at
> whether this version
> has DB support or not, but I saw on a recent post in
> some ML where, as I
> understood it, DB support is not until OO. 2.0 I
> will check it out.

i hope this works out for you - it may be just what
you need.

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