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Sewing Bistro

Fine tipps and tricks about sewing and the coffee break

Magig Wikipedia

I'm an engineer who liked programming more then working with robots in the car-industry.
So after playing with Magic in my free time i started working professionally in the software-industry in 1997 in a company named Stream Software.

I make now the MGA (Magic Group Archive), a series of compiled help files with all the messages from the Yahoo-group magicu-l.

Majic Works

The MWRTFEditor and it's complementary partner control MWRTFPreview are unique. Although they could be used in any development environment that support ActiveX, they are specially designed for usage in the Magic / eDeveloper (Magic) environment.

At last you can provide an easy and powerful solution in your applications to the age old problem of merged document output. These controls allow your end users to design their own merged documents WITHOUT having to know the first thing about the RTF Merge process. They can just drag and drop fields onto their document and the MWRTFEditor does the rest. The usual tag issues are totally hidden from view.

EDev to Excel

- Sends any V10 online task data view to Excel in a flash.
- Easy to use.
- Easy to deploy.
- Wizard based.
- Well documented.
- Source Code included!
- Purchase once, deploy endlessly.

A great argument to help justifying the decision to move to V10!

Magic Software

Magic Software / eDeveloper
Magic Software Enterprises (MSE) is a globally recognized provider of business-driven tools for rapid, simplified Application Development and Deployment and Enterprise Application Integration - used with complete confidence by mid-size and large corporations, software developers, and system integrators around the world.

As a global player in the software industry, Magic Software has representation in more than 40 countries. Among the company's 600 employees around the world are over 170 skilled experts involved in the ongoing research and development of current and future technologies.

Treemap a fantastic add.in

TreeMap is an interactive visualization tool that allows seeing both the big picture and the details of your data. It offers filtering techniques to explore the data and can be used for the visualization of budgets, projects, products, surveys, documents and other structured data set

Get.DLL: a Must have

GET.DLL : a Magic DLL collection

GET.DLL is a set of 6 freeware Magic DLLs, one for general functions GET.DLL, one for network and internet functions NETGET.DLL, one to dial a phone number using the sound card PHONEGET.DLL, one for email MAILGET.DLL, one for Windows NT specific functions NTGET.DLL, and another for Citrix (Metaframe) system MFGET.DLL.

This Magic DLLs suite adds useful functions (UDP or UDF) for Magic V7, V8 and V9 (eDeveloper) for Windows 9X/ME or NT/2K, that I recommend you to call from a Magic program wrapper (easier maintenance, possibility to replace call to GET.DLL by use of the Magic V8.2+ calldll to Windows DLLs (a few wrappers show this new possibility), or a newly implemented Magic function, ... ), as well as several Magic Development tools.

What is Magic RADD from Magic Software Enterprises ?
Magic (now Magic 9 eDeveloper) is an innovating engine based RAD tool (or RADD for Rapid Application Development and Deployment) that outperforms other 4GL tools in term of rapidity of development, as its performances in various development competitions prove it ! You can use the same paradigm to develop stand alone applications, but also n-tiers, internet or client/server applications, in various server platforms (Windows NT, Linux, various Unix flavors, AS/400, ...) and databases ( Oracle, MS SQL server, Sybase, Btrieve, ODBC (Btrieve ODBC), DB2, ...).

Heidi Schuppenhauer Apprentice Books

A lot of that is encapsulated in the Sorcerer's Apprentice books, and
is detailed in some of the classes at Lulu. I have some other courses
tthat aren't on Lulu that deal specifically with deployment, at a very
detailed level.

One thing though: the deployment is likely to change in the next
year, or at least you'll have a new option for deployment that
hasn't been there in the past. It is called Rich Client (and there's a
class on that too you can watch) and I'm very excited about it. We're
all waiting for the rollout!

I've been using eDev for over 15 years now. Before that I worked on
large-scale projects at Boeing, mostly in configuration control adn
programmer productivity tools. The thing that hooked me about eDev
is that it IS incredibly scalable: you can use it for little projects using
a little DBMS, and then hook it into a major Oracle DBMS and it
works the same (OK, there are some programming differences between
SQL and ISAM and XML, but still, it's something you wouldn't even
think about on some platforms).

Also eDev "manages complexity" better than any tool I've used. Your
function points for a program drop drastically. So do your bugs.
The programs are superbly robust, and the issues tend to be
DBMS or hardware problems. The programs are very easy to
change on the fly, so it makes a good "mock up" tool. I sometimes
write the screens while the user tells me what they need.

Using some of the newer programming paradigms, like ActiveX and
SOAP, are far easier in eDev than on competing platforms.

Downside: eDev programmers rarely get decent training. They are
sent for a 1-week course and then set loose. You need a good
architect for the project, and good ongoing training (which is what I'm
trying to provide at Lulu, for a really decent price too). eDev
programmers are often not supervised well either, and the "normal"
standards and testing processes that one would use on a large
project are often sorely lacking. And, as with all programming
platforms, there is a huge gap between "good" and "mediocre"
programmers.

You can also get the tutorial "Buffers, Vectors, and Blobs"
by Steve from Lulu. It is in V9 and it does have samples.

There is also a section in Mastering eDeveloper ...
download Discovery and you get ME for free. Much
if it, probably most of it, is directly applicable to V9.

Also there is a little bit about vectors in The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Recipes for V9.

Delicious Toppings for Magic/eDeveloper

Hot Fudge is a collection of gadgets, components, functions and utilities designed for easy integration with Magic/eDeveloper - greatly extending the capabilities of MSE's Rapid Application Development Toolkit.

Hot Fudge adds drag and drop, treeview controls, outlook-style bars, animated gif/avi/ani support, hyperlinks, mail, PDF creation, embedded browsers, MSAgent support, registry/INI access, charts, audio, cursor control, common dialogs, Explorer-style buttons and so much more to Magic. Compatible with Magic v7x/8x on win95/98/NT/2k/XP/2k3.

Hot Fudge v1 specifically targetted Magic v7/8 and was last released on 11-03-2003. After a long break from this project, new Hot Fudge components for Magic v9.4 & eDeveloper 10 are under development.

HOT FUDGE v2.0 Beta for Magic/eDeveloper v9/10
"Back to Basics"

HotFudge for Magic 7/8 was pretty cool when it was developed and released some 4 or more years ago. A powerful subclassing engine gave the Magic developer a host of new gadgets and components hitherto unimaginable. That was then, this is now.

Magic/eDeveloper v9 and 10 has since moved on, become more sophisticated and rounded-out some of that functionality that made HotFudge so vital. You don't need HotFudge to do treeviews, or embedded browsers or drag&drop because Magic supports these things now.

But there's always a place for add-ons...

So what I'm doing is getting right back to basics, I've deprecated the stuff that isn't required in v9/10 and I'm releasing here the first in a regular series of updates to the HotFudge utilities suite specifically designed for v9, v10 and beyond.

(HotFudge v1.63 still exists and is still available but is only supported for Magic v7 and v8.)

Help me build a better HotFudge, help me build a better Magic. Send me your ideas for HotFudge features and I'll select the best and most practical and make them happen. Just like the old days.

Creat Excel worksheets

HotFudge XLS allows software developers to create, query and update Excel worksheets without complex COM commands.

Magic Optimizer 4.0

Magic Optimizer 4.0
for eDeveloper v10 has been released. All the great functionalities now available for applications developed with eDeveloper v10!

Magic Optimizer 4.0 for eDeveloper v10 is an advanced optimization and analyzing solution for eDeveloper v10 applications. Wide range of optimization checks and analytical features for an extended overview of every part of applications.

Download a free trial version

RM Converter

RM Converter
Takes your eDeveloper V10 Application's "Record Main Compatible" handler and converts it into the event driven logic. Includes flexible settings, fast conversion and detailed report.

Download a free trial version

*The* User Group for eDevelopers

eDeveloper (Formerly known as Magic) RADD Software users group.

This is an English language group. Non-English posts are acceptable IF they contain an English translation.

For anti-SPAM reasons, new members' posts are "moderated". This means that a post will not show up in the group until it is approved by one of the moderators. This will almost always happen in less than 24 hours. Please do NOT double post!

DO NOT SEND TEST MESSAGES TO THIS GROUP!

If you find that this is not a group that you wanted to join, you can unsubscribe via email by sending a post to magicu-l-unsubscribe @ yahoogroups.com.

eDeveloper from Magic Software Enterprises is an integrated development environment for developing database applications. It has gateways for PVSW, CISAM, Oracle, DB2, MSSQL and ODBC; and deployment engines for Windows, Linux, various flavors of Unix, and AS/400.

The primary purpose of this group is to share problems and solutions regarding the use of "Edeveloper from Magic".

I hope you find this group to be a really wonderful resource.

UniPass Blog

The Magic of uniPaaS explores Magic Software's latest application development and deployment platform. Come here to see content ranging from how-to to how-come? and more. Provided by Glenn Johnson, a Senior VP at Magic Software Enterprises, Inc. in Laguna Hills, California, the information contained is not offical commentary on behalf of Magic Software Enterprises and represents the opinion of the author.

Railways amigos

Enter into the magic railway world

Firefly

Firefly offers a proven, reliable, and 100% automated modernization solution from Magic eDeveloper to the Microsoft .NET platform and C# language.

Our approach to application modernization is based on:

A fully automated migration process
A short schedule
One time cost
No end user retraining

My preferred books 

Managing Information Quality: Increasing the Value of Information in Knowledge-intensive Products and Processes

by: Martin J. Eppler

Amazon Price: $69.95 (as of 11/23/2008)

Wissenskommunikation in Organisationen: Methoden, Instrumente, Theorien

Amazon Price: $89.95 (as of 11/23/2008)

Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions

by: Tim Ash

Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 11/23/2008)

Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design

by: Vincent Flanders, Michael Willis

Amazon Price: (as of 11/23/2008)

Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design

by: Vincent Flanders, Dean Peters

Amazon Price: (as of 11/23/2008)