Hi Daniel,

Herb's application is much like yours, in that it's all about the graphics. That's why he used Python. It is the centerpiece of his business in its current version (VFP plus a lot of special C and C++ libraries), so you know he takes it seriously.

What Lianja gives you what VFP + a framework gave/gives us: the ability to focus on the job at-hand, rather than having to tinker with the infrastructure. Whether that's a production issue for you (many seem to be happy working through Angular issues: it takes all types) is for you to determine.

The good news for you is that issues that you might encounter are being encountered first by Herb, and getting fixed/included in Lianja. You might want to get in touch with Herb to get his take on whether Lianja would work for your needs. He's very open and sharing.

Hank

>Hi Hank,
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>>Herb Mischel has done some really neat stuff using a Python graphics library to cut pieces out of an image, adjust the image properties, and then >paste it back in. It's all part of a package that he's porting to Lianja. Here's a link to a Youtube he created: https://youtu.be/1kpa-3Wg2Ro
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>Thanks for the wonderful pointer:)
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>The application is relatively big (over 100 k-lines) as most of what veteran VFP coders have developed over time. I need to handle the change very carefull:)
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>The application I need to move out of our dear dead-locked VFP environment is half of a painting application - with an interface more akin to paint-net than modern tablet-centric UIs - half a data-centric one. The application is also data-centric but essentially in a VFP-rushmore sense. This is definitely not a database application.
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>Would you feel comfortable with Lianja for the such task. I was not able to run through Herb Mischel stuff but this got me thinking. Building the whole object stuff with python/sqlite and then trying to build the interface with Lianja-python.
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>Since Lianja is QT-based, I could move to sheer QT via pyqt in case of functional or deployment issue. Would you feel there'd be a value using the Lianja builder tools instead of the QT support - ie QTCreator?
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>Thanks for the great contribution:)
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>Daniel