dBase lives ? OMG!

npalardy · 27 July 2021 19:32

stumbled on this after looking at Pointer function - General - Xojo Programming Forum

Vars a1,a2,a3,a4, testVar As String
var x as Integer = 4
var y as Integer = 1

while y <x
testVar = “a”+x.toString

testVar = “The Text”. <<—

Wend
I used to do this as &testVar in Dbase . I don’t know what this is called ,
is there a way to do this in Xojo ?

this loop would assign a1, a2, a3, a4 the string “The Text”

There is no counterpart in Xojo

jmadren · 27 July 2021 21:07

Wow - did you see the “dBASE Classic” page? They even include the original documentation scanned to pdf format!

npalardy · 27 July 2021 21:42

That theres a 2019 release amazed me
dBase was damned useful in its day
Didnt look beyond that but it’d be interesting to see whats happened to it in the intervening years

HMARROQUINC · 28 July 2021 03:39

Oh for the love of God just kill it for good

minihold · 28 July 2021 16:00

What déjà vu Can some one of you remember Clipper?

Rick.A · 28 July 2021 17:04

Sure, I was an expert in such language. Loved when I was able to stop supporting COBOL apps and writing CLIPPER ones and linking them with C libs to give’em superpowers instead.

SteveW · 28 July 2021 17:05

Alaska xBase++
Harbour xBase

Rick.A · 28 July 2021 17:06

http://www.xharbour.org

Meestor_X · 29 July 2021 00:53

Wow! DBase was one of the first languages I started writing in. Holy throwback Wednesday!

supcumps · 29 July 2021 01:16

YES!
Also had a clipper decompiler (may still have it on an older drive)

HMARROQUINC · 29 July 2021 03:13

Unfortunatelly I’m working with Clipper on a daily basis. We do have plans to migrate from it but have not come around to doing so.

oleman · 29 July 2021 04:41

Wow! I did a lot of work with dBase and Nantucket Clipper then, back in the 80ies! Just before we switched to programming MS Windows frontend GUIs to the SQL Server, which was an OS/2 software then (by Ashton Tate, Sybase and Microsoft) …

minihold · 29 July 2021 07:33

You are in DOS or OS/2 world? Unbelievable!

minihold · 29 July 2021 07:39

Back in the 80s (around 1987) ported for a company 2 bigger solutions (merchandise planning and control system) from dBase/Clipper to C because of performance issues.

minihold · 29 July 2021 07:42

Sems like, this audience is a collection of dinosaurs

jmadren · 29 July 2021 12:57

Hey! I ~~resent~~ resemble that remark!

HMARROQUINC · 30 July 2021 02:54

Don’t laugh… We are running win 95 on a VM. Yeah, that bad

gwtx · 5 August 2021 02:43

Why havent you tried something such a Harbour? We switched to xHarbour & MS-SQL years ago

npalardy · 5 August 2021 14:28

welcome to the community here

Mick · 31 August 2021 12:09

YES! I had a Clipper Generator, called CAPP, at this time (1986) - which generated a complete Application from a data model. People did not buy it because they regarded it as a fake. Even if they had tried and tested it. Did not change until now with CAPP for Xojo.