Re: What is Designer 2000 written in?

Steve Corbett <stevec_at_fcs.wa.gov.au> wrote:

>Jeff Jacobs wrote:
>> Steve Corbett <stevec_at_fcs.wa.gov.au> wrote:
>> >What product is Designer 2000 written in?
>> >(Is this an admission Forms4.5 cant do everything?)
>>
>> Designer/2000 is written in C++, using Microsoft Foundation classes.
 

>thanks for that.
 

>> Client server doesn't have the "GUI" going up and down the network; that's
>> handled at the client side.
 

>sorry for being technically flippant. i meant to say i was under the
>impression Forms4.5 would generate more network traffic than Forms3.
 

>> Its the data transfer over the network that is the
>> issue. Moving from Forms 3.0 to Forms 4.5 isn't going to change network traffic
>> much; in fact, it might improve it.
 

>your the first i have heard say this.

This is only true if your 3.0 application already ran on Clients.

If the Forms-part is running on a central server, then every screen is sent over the network. If you use 4.5 on PC, then only the data is transferred over the net. But with poorly written querys, the amount of data can be significant.

I had a site where, after conversion from server-based 3.0 to client-based 4.5, response times increased from 2 seconds to 4 minutes. After some redesign of the program, response time got down to 1 second.
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