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Chis feels that the BR AI context that he has been experimenting with is not sufficient for meaningful application development. I will attempt to produce an AI context that improves on what Chris is working with. But that will be a stop-gap measure at best. What is needed is a fully BR trained MCP s...

"Claude Code generated that." I have the impression that Cursor is a convenience, but the real work is done best in claude. And VS Code is approaching Cursor's functionality. Cursor is a derivitive (fork) of VS Code. So I personally don't bother with Cursor. I also find that the Anthropic ...

Was the example you provided coded by Claude or by Cursor?

And have you integrated the two, or do you use them individually?

Is anyone else on this thread using AI presently (other than Luis - who uses it a lot) ?

It has been quite a while since we used the forum and mailing list extensively. Many people have changed their emails over the course of time. So I'd like all of you to forward this message to me personally at gordon.dye7@gmail.com . Then I can investigate the contacts who I believe may want to be k...

For those who don't know it, Luis, Mikhail, Chris and I have been quietly upgrading Business Rules. While we are not ready to announce a new release yet, I figured it would be useful to begin a discussion of how we can apply AI to the Business Rules compiler. To start with let me define some terms i...

I dropped this project because it required too much time and effort to maintain it and the demand for it was scarce. But more importantly, it was not entirely useful to provide a user interface that could not readily adapt to small screens like smartphones. It was a much better use of our time to de...

It wasn't too bright of me to suggest responding here if you have issues. Feel free to contact me at gordon.dye7@gmail.com if you have difficulties with the forum.

After an unauthorized impact to our server that took the wiki and forum down, I needed to use a consultant to figure out how to recover the forum. This person was unavailable for some time. The forum has now been updated and appears to be fully functional. Note that I cannot login under my regular b...

As indicated via the email list, there will be a series of webinars concerning how to use SQL in BR applications. In other words, how to migrate your BR internal files to an SQL server of some type. This announcement is a status report on the webinars. Luis has been supporting SQL in his application...

One of the more frustrating things to do is to attempt to stabilize a page, both the background image and the overprint data, when printing multiple pages using either PCL or NWP. I have found that beginning the printing with TOP0 or TOP4 etc., before printing the background image works most of the ...

Have you considered using an independent (Parent=NONE) window and not affecting the non-GUI window?

So if I wanted to convert some lookup sub-windows to ScreenIO, they would pop up and then go away.

Ahh found it. It says it was authored by Chris. I'm going to add that function to the context manager.

While I'm at it .. what do you do to partially upgrade legacy programs (with ScreenIO) that don't run in GUI mode? Do you need to switch to GUI mode in order to utilize ScreenIO?

Does anyone here have a utility program that creates filelay layouts from context records?

Filelay layouts are used by by FileIO and/ScreenIO, and Context data is used by ODBC.

I have the impression that John uses the PROC ED command to work around his preference to avoid using the EDITOR config statement because the EDIT command itself responds to a simple E command which can be accidently entered. I also have the impression that John wants to be able to call N++ from the...

When you are working intensively with keys and record numbers I would encourage you to consider using ISAM indexes . I don't know if you can mix index types, but it's worth checking. You could use the program I submitted above to check that. ISAM indexes can be normalized very fast with Index Reorg....