William Chops Westfield wrote:
> >> The question was about "home-brew"  things.
>
> Visio is hardly "home brew" !  (I find this comes up a lot.
> For one reason or another, you want to develop a "cheap"
> something-or-other, and it turns out that what is "cheap"
> can be highly "localized."  You can develop a PCB layout
> methodology for Visio, but it's really only useful if you HAVE
> visio (a $400+ software package.)  On the other hand,
> add-ons to Eagle are useful to anyone with windows or linux...

   Visio or not Visio; that's not the question. The idea
works under MS Excel and even under Word with
MS shapes. I have around me in my not so big town
hundreds of legal MS products. Who will blame
(and control) somebody for using at home copy of
such a thing for non-commercial "home brewing" ?
   In fact, the target of my post is not to rival Eagle.
Do I love or loathe MS I should admit MS Office is
a good platform to start developing different software,
internet-based included, due to built-in VBA.
   It's not so stupid idea to place all the data access
layer and business  logic rules on the PICList server
side, leaving the rest - client interface be based on
on client's MS Office, I think.
   Further, if the idea would work, it could be possible
to shift to IE or plain Win app on the client's side.

   Best regards,
       Mike.

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02:20 a.m. - where is my half of our double bed.

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