Comments by Member 15254346 (Top 3 by date)

Member 15254346 28-Jun-21 17:35pm View

Hi Dave,
Your answer clarifies some important things to me and prevents me from going through dead ends.
At this point I will make more realistic choices with respect to the scenarios I had designed by deepening some technical concepts that I will need for the realization of some prototypes to be gradually refined.
Many thanks
Luigi

Member 15254346 28-Jun-21 14:01pm View

Hi Gerry,
I honestly do not agree that applications developed with other tools, and I repeat again that it is a 4GL that is not comparable with Visual Studio and similar tools, do not need portions developed with other languages.
The proof is in fact because I, like others, have used and have been using for several years, where necessary, controls from other environments.
As for the fact that a programming language can create its own OCX or something equivalent in the form of libraries, this also seems obvious to me.
This does not mean that every widget in this world is always available whatever the development environment you use or that it can be obtained with little effort.
Perhaps you work with tools with which, also thanks to the contribution of a large mass of technicians who enrich, often for free, environments such as Java, Javascript, Python, PHP and the like, you don't feel the need.
But computer science is not made up only of Java, Javascript, Python, PHP etc. so, without prejudice and with very honest recognition for the work of others, we use what we can find to overcome the limitations of our main work tool.
And if I have misinterpreted the meaning of your comment, I offer you my apologies and I wish you good work.
Luigi

Member 15254346 28-Jun-21 9:58am View

Thank you Richard for your answer.
If I may then I would like to ask you for confirmation that, while previously I could "embed" an ActiveX in a language other than VB6, C ++, C # etc., and make that object become an integral part of an application, for reasons also related to safety, today this is no longer easily possible and that we can get close, but not too close, since we have to adopt quite different technical solutions.
My previous applications have been developed with a 4GL which allows to interface COM technologies.
Alternatively I could consider using REST-compliant web services.

Many thanks
Luigi