Hi Ed,

Asking questions is difficult because I only have glimpses of what you are doing. But, you seem to have upset some people with the unbound controls, disdain for private DS, and other stuff that could be construed as non-standard.

That non-standard approach sometimes creeps into your opinions and problem-solving and, IMHO, causes confusion for less experienced developers. See? If you don't bind your data, fine. But most people do. And if you don't use private DS, fine, but again, most people do.

Personally, I would like to see your equivalent to DESI, the small complete app I uploaded here some weeks back. Just a few forms, a menu, and enough guts to be able to see it work. Not to critique it, but to see what your architecture's advantages and disadvantages are.


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>If you have questions ask them here. I'm ready to answer. You see, there are some so good people around that I must be careful.
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>>Hi John, Ed,
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>>I am also interested in Ed's general framework. I have seen glimpses of it from time to time in his posts here. I think an "alternate approach" article for the KB here would be very enlightening.
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>>>OK, I'll bite... I have some technical queries......
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>>>1. How does your methodology work with regard to Transactions?
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>>>2. If I want to discard wholesale changes to a cursor, and restore the values
>>> on disk, how would I do that?
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>>>3. With regard to optimistic locking, and detecting if others have made changes
>>> to data before I attempt to commit my changes, how would I do that?
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>>>4. I like the idea of local views? How would I use them? You say you don't use
>>> buffering. Yet, all views have to be buffered.
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>>>That is it for now....
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>>>Here is to hoping you don't leave me with that impression that you avoid further explanations.... :) See you tomorrow night!!!!! :)
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>>>>>>I develop applications this way, and have some knowledge here.
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>>>>>Hi Ed. I have seen you mention your technique a few times over the years. It would be interesting if you could upload an article showing this technique. I remember once you called it "unbound". Interesting.
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>>>>One more thing. I do not want to create impression that I avoid further explanations. I have to leave in few minutes, but if you have any tech questions, post them here: I will be back tomorrow night, and will try to answer.