Subject Re: Dummy Guide needed-or sample full app From Don OShall <doshall536@gmail.com> Date Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:48:09 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Thanks. I think I will just give up. I had a good run. I can read the handwriting on the wall. Time to just go away and stop trying. I have been struggling with this for over ten years, It is time I learned my lesson. Thaniks, everyone, for at least trying to help me. Sometimes the right answer is 'No.' . Mervyn Bick Wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:06:36 +0200, DonOS <dao4@lehigh.edu> wrote: > > > > What I really NEED is a pointer to either something like a John Smiley   > > book or to a full blown stand-alone app's source code to examine and   > > learn from. Any help will be appreciated, none is anticipated or   > > expected (no entitlement self-deceptions), a small fee could be   > > considered if I felt confident I am not just continuing to throw good   > > money after bad. > > Now that we've found that Michael Nuwer's Dive Shop case study won't run   > properly in dBASE Plus 9 without some serious panel-beating we're back to   > square one. > > As a fellow graduate of the "Monkey see, monkey do" school of programming   > I too learnt much of how to program in dBASE by seeing how other   > programmers tackled problems.  In my case though it was a matter of   > bit-sized chunks rather that a full meal sized application. > > It's an almost cast iron certainty that no programmer here is going to   > give you a copy of a commercially viable application to study.  Back in   > the days of dBASE for MSDOS there was a big enough market so that   > publishing a book showing how to build the application from scratch was   > perhaps worth more than marketing the actual program.  Those days are,   > however, past.  There are, however, many here who are willing to pass on   > their knowledge and who have, over the years, posted working examples that   > illustrate a specific technique.  All you need to do is trawl the   > newsgroups looking for these.  (The getting-started and programming   > newsgroups are probably the best place to start.) > > Mervyn.