Questions On Converting Procedural Menu Pads To A Visual Menu On Form

[drosenkranz]

Hello,

A contractor delivered an application written entirely in old fashioned procedural code using menu pads and all kinds of extremely ugly code. (Come to think of it, I used to write stuff like this using mfoxplus multi-user versions years ago.) The app was so poorly written that they had to send another developer on site here to patch and fix it to get it limping along (so they could get paid). Now its time to modify the menu and my boss wants me to rewrite the procedural menu and pile all of these programs into a visual application that runs all of the procedural code. My problem is I've been doing VB/Access for the last 5 years and just re-united with the new and improved VFP ovger the last six months.

Can I just create a project with one form, add all of the programs to the project, and create a menu on this form that will launch these .prgs or is this going to be dead end? I'm guessing that just the @Say/Gets will be a nightmare. Any ideas/cautions here?


The 2nd mouse gets the cheese.

 

[ramani]

I feel rewriting is the best answer ... based on my own experience.... I have a relatively wonderful master piece of financial accounting/inventory software which is working for over 100 clients (the beauty is it has been built with so many OOPs type coding in procedural way on 2.6 DOS and works seemlessly on Win95/Win98/W2000/Linux/NT/Novel and works for various types of clients by setting parameters .. I still get derived income from that... ) but all my attempts to make it work on VFP3 then on VFP5 etc wasnt that successful. Now I started fom scratch on VFP6 on similar thinking, the project is almost over 50% completed in relatively a couple of months. Believe I took over years to make the DOS project.

The moral is that REWRITE the code rather than brooding over the DOS codes and you will soon find .. it is must easier to complete the project in a shorter time and better manner with all added experience.

This is my Personal view.

Best of Luck ramani
(Subramanian.G)
FoxAcc
ramani_g@yahoo.com

 

[GrigoreDolghin]

Hello.

I think ramani is right. I should do the same thing - rewrite the app. It's up to you, because you know better the timeline. But you'll have to consider to rewrite the app. Just my oppinion.

Hope this helps Grigore Dolghin
Class Software
Bucharest, Romania