Is this possible.

Charles Hartman charles.hartman at conncoll.edu
Mon Dec 19 08:16:44 EST 2005


I haven't used Visual Basic. Consensus seems to be that Revolution is  
a lot easier as a way to make GUI front-ends.

As for program design, you probably need to think about whether the  
information will be updated, and how. If it's all already in place  
(you ship the data to your user along with your search-and-display  
front-end), then converting it (export from Excel as comma-delimited  
fields?) and incorporating it into your Revolution app will make your  
life easier. If your user is going to have to add new data later,  
that will get more complicated.

But I'm not the one to be answering; let's see what those who are  
more expert say.

Charles


On Dec 19, 2005, at 7:58 AM, Martin wrote:

> Hi Charles
>
> Thanks for the quick response, The information is is already  
> produced in
> Excel, but if it would be easier I could change this format, I  
> forgot to
> mention that this program would be shipped on a cd so the end user  
> I guess
> would have to drag the program onto there own pc so they could  
> update or add
> articles to the program.
>
> A question for you Charles, Whats the difference with Revolution  
> and Visual
> Basic? As you can see I have no Idea where to start.
>
> Thanks
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Charles
> Hartman
> Sent: 19 December 2005 12:50
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Is this possible.
>
> You'll get better answers from others who know more, but two things
> seem clear to me:
>
> 1) Revolution is a fine way to do this
>
> 2) Using Excel is not going to be the easiest way (very not); are you
> stuck with that? what form do you get the data in?
>
> Charles Hartman
>
>
> On Dec 19, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Martin wrote:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>>
>>
>> I am looking to purchase Revolution, I have no programming
>> experience but I
>> have a task I wish to tackle. This task is using an excel
>> spreadsheet full
>> of reviews and articles, these articles are broken down into
>> columns with
>> headings these headings are criteria within the article. (example)-
>> I have
>> over 1500 articles on fishing, each article has a heading, a
>> species of
>> fish, what bait was used to catch the fish, a date, methods etc. I
>> want to
>> make a quick reference quide (programme) to find information
>> quickly from
>> the excel spreadsheet which in turn can be updated by the program if
>> possible. The front end of such a program will have drop down menus
>> say 6 in
>> a line. The first drop down box will display all the fish species,
>> The user
>> will select a fish (a Carp) from this list, which will then in turn
>> populate
>> all the other drop down menus with information on Carp, next drop
>> down menu
>> would be bait (maggot) etc etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> So the end result would generate all articles containing the fish
>> Carp,
>> caught on the bait maggot, in the year 1990, on a lake, in England,
>> in the
>> Morning.
>>
>> There may be 30 results, so I would like the article headings to
>> show up in
>> a box below the drop down boxes, these headings can be selected to
>> show the
>> full article, say in another box below. This then can be printed out.
>>
>>
>>
>> Questions
>>
>> Can this be done with Revolution and Excel
>>
>> Is this type of thing difficult to produce.
>>
>> Can this system be updated from the program and not Excel
>>
>> Could all the drop down menus have all the information contained in
>> them so,
>> If my initial search was on date (year) this would populate all the
>> other
>> menus, so then I could search for the the species of fish etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> I know this is a bit vague, but I was wondering if this could be  
>> done.
>>
>>
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> martin at smartdesigners.co.uk
>>
>>
>>
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