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Re: more info on ARF020

• Posted by irvm at ellijay.com Jul 26, 2001
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On Thursday 26 July 2001 15:06, gwalters at sc.rr.com wrote:

> I agree with you in principle, but my knowledge base at present is far from
> that level. I'm in a learning mode at this point. I will say however that
> even though windows is event driven and not procedural, an accounting
> application is procedural by its very nature. So I beleive a good deal of
> effort in windows programming would be to defeat its event nature to
> preserve those items in accounting that must be sequential one after the
> other.

You are right in the sense that you must carefully separate certain
procedural aspects of some programs from the user interface. 
In an accounting program, some things just must be done in the 
proper sequence. However, there's no problem isolating these, nor 
in implementing various checks to monitor the current status, 
and warn the user if certain things are being done out of order.

As far as accounting being procedural, it is only so at certain times.
Most of the time, your program probably bounces from verifying 
a customer's balance, to entering adjustments, to running a daily 
sales report, and back to adding invoices, all at the whim of the 
operator(s).  Only when it is decided that it's time to run statements 
and close out the month is it truly procedural. 

I'll send you privately an exw of your edit screen created with the IDE.
It didn't take quite 20 minutes.

Regards,
Irv