Does anybody like V O?

[cricketer]

If anybody has gone from Clipper to VO, what do you think?

All comments good or bad please


John

John Beman
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[kmccabe]

No, nobody likes VO. It's not just that it's a hideously slow, unweildy abortion of a product, it's also that even a mid-size program developed with VO will GPF on a fairly regular basis. No serious developers who aren't stuck with VO because of legacy applications are using it today.

As I see it, Clipper-Heads have three... No make that two and a half serious options:

[1] VB - Popular, easy, but I hate it. Hideous DLLs, etc.

[2] Delphi - Creates standalone EXEs and just feels more natural to Clipper folks.

[2.5] Alaska - If you just can't stand to give up on Clipper entirely (hence your belated attempt to justify a VO project), then this is your best bet. This is what VO could have been, had they not wanted to make "Small Talk Light."

 

[Guest_imported]

I'm suprised you find VO so bad I used it for 2 years and found easy to use, much neater then VB, and being a real OOP lanuage after a while much faster and much easier to produce bug free code then VB. Its only down side was the lack of drivers to use ms access as the underlying database as Dbase databases are far to restrictive. I admit it's a very big jump for a clipper programmer to move to OOP programming which VB is not. but if I can do it then anyone can make the jump.

Bob

 

[Frans1]

I bought VO and found it not so userfriendly. I have since purchased Xbase++ with Express++ and found it great. Not only is the product fantastic but the support from these guys are outstanding, especially Express++.

Maybe the Product Support is why VO are not well supported by Clipper Guys.

I think if you want to stay with the Clipper language and have GUI possibilities then Xpress and Xbase is the way to go.

Frans Moolman