Key Benefits

• DTFWin provides a script language that takes the place of the very popular macros used with the DOS versions of Q&A.
• It supports multiple databases on the screen at once.
• It supports windows list boxes so you can double click to get data from another database or text file.
• DTFWin is in use at many locations.
• It is well tested, very powerful, stable, and safe to use.

There is a free demo for DTFWin. You can see images of the demo program or you can download and run the demo. 

The windows version of Q&A has the ability to present multiple forms for your existing DOS databases.  These forms can easily be made to be much more presentable than is possible with DOS databases.

However, Q&A Windows has some deficiencies that have limited its usefulness by serious developers of Q&A applications. DTFWin is a Windows program that works with Q&A Windows to overcome those deficiencies.

Actually, DTFWin is a generic program that is customized to create your own specific application. Your own windows program would have its own icon, its own menu structure, and it would know about your Q&A Windows databases and how to manipulate them as part of your application.

Rather than try to explain exactly what this means, take a look at the WINDEMO program. This is a customized Windows program created just to be a demo. It illustrates the types of features that can be easily built into your own, customized Windows program.

• The application's main menu is DTFWin, not QAWin.  DTFWin runs QAWin as needed.  Upon startup, no Q&A banner is displayed.
• DTFWinchanges its size and QAWin's size and then positions them together. Thus, QAWin looks very much like a window that belongs to DTFWin.
• If the user presses a key, such as F12, while on a field, DTFWin can intercept the keystroke and perform special actions, based on the current form and field and the key that was pressed.  (Examples: context sensitive help, popping up a multicolumn listbox filled with data taken from a Q&A database.)
• If a particular value appears in a field and the cursor is in that field, DTFWin can observe the value and perform special actions based on the current form and field and the value in the field. (Example: automatically changing to a different form that displays a different set of fields.)

Contact me if you are interested in learning more about how you can easily migrate your Q&A DOS applications to Windows, without reprogramming or reloading your databases.

A free demo is available. Click here to download.