Borland dBASE 5.0 for DOS

Evaluator's Guide

Table of Contents

Welcome to dBASE 5.0 for DOS

Executive summary

• What's new in dBASE 5.0 for DOS
• Who should use dBASE 5.0 for DOS?
  • For the end user
  • For power users, and corporate, government, and independent application developers

dBASE in detail

• Full 32-bit operation for superior real-world performance
  • Real-world performance
• Object-based and event-driven programming
  • Object-oriented programming in dBASE 5.0 for DOS
• Other common user access features
• Event-driven programming and dBASE
• IDE Turbo Vision desktop UI
  • Command and Screen Compatibility windows: next-generation dot prompt
    • The Command window
  • On-line help
  • The IDE menu bar
  • IDE dialog boxes
    • Input boxes
    • List boxes
    • Information boxes
    • Push buttons
    • Check boxes, radio buttons, spin boxes, and other elements
• The Form Designer
  • Two-Way-Tool™ for rapid form design
• Integrated compiler
  • Compiler features
    • Using the compiler
• Project Manager
  • Using the Project Manager
• New developer features
  • Database enhancements
  • Programming language enhancements
  • Improved color handling

Summary

Appendix A dBASE 5.0 SpeedFilter optimizations

Appendix B dBASE 5.0 for DOS built-in classes

Appendix C Enhanced array-handling functions

Appendix D Color properties

Welcome to dBASE 5.0 for DOS

Thank you for your interest in Borland dBASE 5.0 for DOS! Borland has prepared this Evaluator's Guide to introduce you to the many new features and benefits of dBASE for DOS, in order to help simplify and speed your product evaluation.

This Guide is organized to make it easy to "get to the heart" of your evaluation, whether you're an experienced dBASE expert or a first-time user. Here's what you'll find:

• An executive summary

• A brief description of Borland's goals and reasons for developing dBASE 5.0 for DOS

• A summary of the new features and enhancements of dBASE for DOS, organized in the order of their importance to most dBASE developers, including performance comparisons between dBASE 5.0 for DOS and previous versions of dBASE

• Information about how dBASE meets the needs of end users, internal MIS developers and independent developers

• Step-by-step examples of key new features