[NTLUG:Discuss] Office forms

[Randall Gibson]

Well, I wish I could. Learning a programming language is a big item I want to do, and I am reading up on C++, but it is slow going I am told Perl/Tk will be easy to pick up from there. Till then, I am not upgrading my memory untill I do the whole thing. MB+CPU+Mem+Case May also have to get a new video card unless I find a P-3 MB with 5 PCI slots. Afterwards, Anyone wants a dual p-200 W 128 ram, Matrox Mil 2, Voodoo 1 real cheap??

> You could always resort to "rolling your own".  If the forms are reasonably
> simple, a person could knock out a Perl/Tk app in short order.  Some labels,
> text boxes, and option-menus are pretty easy.  Your problem may be with output
> form, you'd get text of some sort (normal text, or CSV format, or whatever
> else you can print).
> 
> If you don't know Perl or TK, there's always C, Tcl, and other languages; plus
> Gtk, Qt, Xaw, and other GUIs.  Heck, you could also do it in CGI and use it
> via a Web browser (local on your machine) and let it do the graphics.  Output
> would still be in ASCII text.
> 
> Probably not as easy on you, but it could be done.  [You've probably already
> considered this, but I don't recall it being mentioned anywhere.]
> 
> As for your speed problems, a faster CPU would help; but more memory may help
> more.  Something to consider.  I recently upgraded to 256M and find that I can
> run Netscape, Vmware, plus all my xterms with room to spare.  Performance is
> quite reasonable (OK, I've got a 500Mhz P3, but it wasn't as reasonable when I
> only had 128M).
> 
> Kevin
> 
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