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Re: Turning BB into ASM code
« Reply #25 on: Jun 4th, 2013, 9:25pm » |
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on Jun 4th, 2013, 1:38pm, Michael Hutton wrote:| How much would the Listview change after each manipulation? You could suffer one long period where the listview is being populated first time but then change/update only the information which has changed the next time. This may help to reduce the re-population time if the user is changing things. |
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Most of the time, with the people who use the current version, they simply track up and down the list searching for the right record (illogical perhaps, but reality). Occationally, a search is required. This will create a new list with the selected records. The new program would allow manipulation of the records.
Quote:I don't want to appear silly but surely a statistical summary/method for 10,000 different data points is better? Forgive me if I am barking up the wrong tree, but I sometimes deal with massive data sets on an infrequent, but frequent enough, basis).
Have you thought of using COMLIB, or rather saving the information to a file maybe and viewing it all in another spreadsheet (Eg. Excel)? |
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The current information is viewed in Excel, but it's a very fixed format. That's the main reason for designing a program around the data.
I have to say that I do agree with most of what has been said in this thread, and, as said before, if I were designing it in a more generic way, than I would do it differently. Probably with a hierarchy style (I think Richard suggested this). However, as David said: the customer is king! If I'm going to get the customer to accept it, I'm going to have to follow his main wishes, which is to have something that resembles, on the surface, what is currently being used.
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Re: Turning BB into ASM code
« Reply #26 on: Jun 4th, 2013, 10:00pm » |
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on Jun 4th, 2013, 9:25pm, Matt wrote:| I'm going to have to follow his main wishes |
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If it was me, I wouldn't! At the very least I would attempt to develop, and present to the customer, an alternative approach in addition to what he is currently asking for.
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Re: Turning BB into ASM code
« Reply #27 on: Jun 5th, 2013, 04:55am » |
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on Jun 4th, 2013, 10:00pm, Richard Russell wrote:| If it was me, I wouldn't! At the very least I would attempt to develop, and present to the customer, an alternative approach in addition to what he is currently asking for. |
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Unfortunatly, I'm not much of a sales person (nor programmer, by the looks of things). I like writing programs, but 'pitching' them to a client is a different matter. This chap I'm doing this for is a old guy, pretty much set in his ways. Although not impossible, teaching an old dog new tricks can sometimes be quite difficult (which occationally, I have to be honest, also includes me!). However, all this talk on variations of the theme, does have me seriously considering other options. I'm going to play around with a non-listview option, similar to what David suggested, and hierarchy style as you did.
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