ViewEditor 2.x (free version)
(VFP 9/8/7/6)
This version of the ViewEditor is the award winning version Steve Sawyer
developed several years ago and released into the Fox Community as a free tool
for VFP developers to use to create views. The features supported by this
version is a subset of the ViewEditor
Professional we offer. Steve no longer maintains or supports this version,
but we have it here for download so it continues to be available to the Fox
Community. If you like the free version and are happy with it, great. If there
are features you wished were included in the free version, check out the
Professional version, which may include it already.
(for VFP 7 and higher)
(Updated
23-May-2002)
(for VFP 6 only)
(Updated 18-Oct-2001)
ViewEditor is a utility to allow easy maintenance of Visual FoxPro local and
remote views. It is intended to address some of the limitations of the Visual
FoxPro View Designer. The view designer is a good tool for learning how to
create SQL – SELECT statements, but once one has become comfortable with writing
SQL code, it is often just as easy to simply write out the SQL command. In
addition, the VFP View Designer has some specific limitations:
- The View Designer will sometimes store two or more tables for the
“tables” property of the view, despite the fact that fields from only one
view may be marked as updateable.
- The View Designer will sometimes drop the database-and-exclamation-point
qualification for the UpdateName property of view fields, causing fields
marked as updatable to not properly update.
- The View Designer constructs SQL code using the “nested” join syntax
rather than the more intuitive and more flexible “sequential” join syntax,
making it extremely difficult to correctly write complex queries,
particularly those involving a single parent table joined with two or more
child tables.
- The View Designer provides direct access to only some of the properties
that the developer may wish to set when creating views.
ViewEditor has been designed to overcome these limitations.
There are now two versions, 2.0 and 2.5. 2.0 is considered feature complete,
and can be run under Visual FoxPro version 6. Version 2.5 has been compiled
under VFP version 7, and has used some new features in VFP 7 to work around
limitations in version 2.0.
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