Re: VARPG

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One thing I learned early on with VARPG was that if the project 
complexity was becoming an issue and dragging down deliverables then 
there was every change that the design  could be looked at, and other 
solutions found that would simplify life for everyone and compromise 
nothing.

My first example of that had to do with the amounts of data we wanted to 
make available.  It was just too hard to cram it all in, and we had 
performance issues.  Then we decided to use a tabbed notebook, and build 
just a couple of the more popular tabs and deliver it to users.  Their 
feedback proved very useful, and as we added tabs, at our pace, we made 
a full blown and sophisticated application that was well received and 
required almost no training for new users.

I must say, those VARPG applications made me realize there is no reason 
for the system i shops top go anywhere else.  This is a personal opinion 
only, but in my opinion browser aps are nice but they will never 
displace Word or Excel.

Justin Taylor wrote:
> My answer to the question, 'Is VA-RPG worth looking into?', would be not
> at this time.
>
> It might work for simple applications but not much more.  It is not
> object-oriented, which becomes more of an issue the more complex your
> application becomes.  We have one application and it crashes
> persistently.  It also does not support EIM, which is holding us back.
>
> The latest planning statement eludes to some future overhaul but there
> is no telling if and when that will happen.