A company recently hired me to re-write and modify their existing
application written in clarion to delphi. for this project the only
handy version of delphi that is w/ them is delphi 4. which i think is
very much enough to handle the job. then i decided to use dbase5 / mdx
as my backend.
the problem was the previous programmer who wrote the application is
gone and there are no do***entation left or anything that would guide
me to the internals of the application, except for encoders who know
very well how to operate the application.
since no choice i gathered all information that i need from these
encoders, started to open tables they used in old program. personally i
dont know clarion that much, although i can manage to do manipulate
data dictionary..etc, but still my knowledge is very, very much
limited.
the application has all something to do with accounts and individual
ledgers.i was able to im****t data from clarion to dbase..however i
think i havent im****ted everything especially ledger transaction. bcoz
if u run the application the ledger is complete but when u open the
table that appears to be responsible in storing the application..u can
see its not complete. w/ my limited knowledge i cant trace where these
records are coming from.
so what i did was watever data is available i im****ted it. now my
application is up and running but the problem is account balances are
inaccurate bcoz some records from the ledgers are missing. the mgt
wanted to implement now the new program and discard the old. if i
should decide to totally disregard the old prog definitely wil have
problems with the balances. so what's the best way to deal w/ this?
