Whats new and fixed in 7.5?  

DataEase 7.5 is basically a serious bug fix for earlier versions of 7 and as such the list of fixes, updates, changes etc. is exhaustive. You will find a complete technical list of all changes with tracking information somewhere on this website, but this is not it. The list below is more for the purpose of illustrating what we have focused on in this version, which is quality assurance, look and feel and usability in using DataEase after an application is developed and for the developer to create good looking applications that look like they are created this side of the new millennia.

1. New Open/New/Rename/Delete Application dialog that combines all functionality and introduces open Recent applications.

2.  Open Recent Application is introduced to make it easier to get started with no need to navigate to the Application every time.

3.  Preview of Styles and Applications. 

4. Default directory when starting DataEase is now My DataEase under My Documents, consistent with other Windows applications.        

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DataEase 8 and the future of DataEase....

DataEase 8 is just a working title as we don’t yet know what we are going to call this baby. Maybe it will be eight. Internally we have divided it in 7.6 and 7.7 which it definitely will not be, as it’s going to be leaps ahead and in DataEase for Windows terms it would be more like 76 an 707 if you measure it by functionality changes and progress.

The work on “8” has already progressed quite far and early versions of both the DQL editor and the future core and web functionality is already being tested, but the next leap for DataEase will be a major one, and as such it will necessarily take some time.

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Help us help you!

I started using DataEase in 1986 when it didn’t even have DQL but it was still amazing. I got a couple of disks from a friend, and off I went. Then when DQL was  first introduced and then subforms, what more could you want?
I remember when I picked up the phone to call DataEase support for the first time and got the new and exciting 4.0 before it was even released and created an amazing stock control, workshop, shop system with accounting, invoicing etc in less than 24 hours. All this just through the intuitive way DataEase for DOS was laid out, without reading a book or consulting the help files.

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TabCrl and MultiBox

One of the major activities in 7.5 has been to iron out bugs that have been left over from the old team in a version of DataEase that was “aptly” named 7.1. I have never even started or seen 7.0, but if 7.1 is anything to go by, I’m glad that I haven’t.

With all big innovations there are some bugs that need ironing out, and this was also the case with all the versions from 7.0.0 to 7.1.133 where we stepped in. The bug list in Bugzilla was short, but I think that was because people had given up reporting bugs, and if they did, someone had given up on registering them.

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Flashing and flickering

Over the years some “fixes” have been applied in DataEase to accommodate for the introduction of new functionality. Time has always been an issue and quick fixes have never been shied away from. This resulted sometimes in unwanted behavior that over time could be quite annoying.
We have removed some we found seriously annoying. Things like you got a dialog to rename labels every time you wanted to write something on a form and a dialog that told you that DataEase didn’t have the language resources for your chosen language (in Windows) and would use English instead.

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New Styles and styling re-invented.

DataEase Express when first introduced was based on a lot of sound and interesting assumptions. It was the beginning of the Windows era, and DataEase Express had embraced the mantra of Windows. A lot of the assumptions of how people wanted to work have since been re-thought, but maybe not in DataEase.