Foreword
I wrote this book in 1999 and published it in 2000. It took me a year to write it the first time. This book is NOT a
complete re-write. I have taken the book as it was, removed an obsolete chapter (web datawindow) and added all
the changes that I could find since version 7. Well. I added all the changes to the datawindow that I could find since
then.
Here are the changes you will find in the book.
Removed the Web DW Added the Web Services
dw Source
There are some new
expressions
There are new object
properties
XML support Printing Changes
Child retrieval Group scrolling Reformatted for Kindle
Case sensitive sorting TreeView presentation Section to give you a
default login
Removed the first chapter
on SQL
Also you will find in many places a reference to the expressions tab page in the properties. That no longer exists.
Expressions were move to little buttons beside the properties. I will fix that in the next major release of this book as
I’m going to redo all of the figures.
I have been toying with the idea of republishing this as an eBook for several years. When set myself to the task I
discovered that Kindle books did not support tables and this book uses a lot of tables. The reformatting for a book
this size was just more than I was ready to do.
Also surely the book would be obsolete so I’d spend all that time reformatting an obsolete book
Then while presenting at ISUG TECH 2015 I was surprised at how many people asked me for a new copy. I kept
saying, But it’s 15 years old. To which every one of them said that they didn’t care. What I have in the book is still
useful. In fact, the datawindow has not advanced very much since this book was published so while it is not as
definitive as it once was I feel it is well worth the much smaller price. Another factor was that now I can use tables
in Kindle books. I still can’t use tab characters though so I had to go through almost a quarter million words looking
for those and replacing them with spaces. I could have done a search and replace except that only a few fonts support
multiple spaces on a Kindle so I had to change the font for all my code as well. While I was at it, I changed all the
code to be consistent. I’m not a big fan of the Calibri font but Kindle really likes it so that’s what I did.
And yeah, this was a bit of a task.
I make use of an infrastructure of my own throughout this book. It’s not a commercial product or a product in any form
actually. It’s just code that over the years I’ve found to be useful. Essentially if I found myself doing the same thing
over and over I would try to find a way to automate it.
My infrastructure is easy to learn and use. That’s the point. I don’t want to have to remember how to do something. It
doesn’t force you to do things a lot differently than you do now. On the other hand, if it were a commercial product it
would have to do a lot more.
If you would like a copy of this infrastructure just email me at rikbrooks@aol.com
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