Technology

Ravenscross · #1 15th August 2001, 16:54

As one time chairman of the BaanUsers tech SIG, I have come across many aspects of using Baan and seeing it customised. Whats is the strangest use of Baan out there, and just how much have people customised thier Baan?

Commandeur · #2 21st August 2001, 12:44

On a big french customer (Dassault) i have seen customer technical guys that have devlopped chess board on baan. They was able to play chess with two baan client via baan server! was on baan IV.

patvdv · #3 21st August 2001, 12:47

LOL, I wonder if you would require a GeForce 3 video card for that

victor_cleto · #4 21st August 2001, 13:37

I saw and played a TicTacToe game (me against computer).
I think that somebody implemented a tetris as well...

Ravenscross · #5 21st August 2001, 15:47

I think these are some features Baan should consider putting into the functionality of the Baan products...

Just cool

Jason · #6 21st August 2001, 16:11

I once played tic-tac-toe on BaanIV as well - part of an advanced technical training course with Profuse! An interesting introduction to 4GL programming! I've probably got a copy of the script somewhere but the Profuse guy owns the rights so I couldn't distribute it.

Ravenscross · #7 21st August 2001, 17:21

Surely there must be a copy of some form of game for Baan out there, so lets start the search!

marcel · #8 22nd September 2001, 19:28

Hi alls,

I like games to, but maybe we better like some trucs in BaaN, just like the attach from a friend a propose you ....

Bien le bonjour
Marcel

patvdv · #9 22nd September 2001, 20:06

Marcel,

Can you tell us what the script listing is supposed to do?

marcel · #10 22nd September 2001, 20:55

HI:

THAT`S ONLY A LITTLE PROGRAM TO MAKE A ELECTRONIC MATRIX, CONTROLING MATERIAL FLOW IN BAAN. ONLY A EXEMPLE INDEED....

SHOW THE ATTACH TO A TOOLS PROGRAMMER PLEASE....

TAKE IT PLEASE AS EJEMPLE OR SUGESTION FOR THIS PART OF THE FORUM.

BIEN LE BONJOUR
MARCEL

James · #11 24th September 2001, 00:35

Quote:

Originally posted by Ravenscross
I think these are some features Baan should consider putting into the functionality of the Baan products...

Just cool

Baan would certainly be a lot brighter with the added touch of a game, but they wouldn't be the first company to do this. Now, Tic-Tac-Toe using 4GL sounds quite feasible, but does anyone remember or know about the Flight Simulator hidden in Excel 97? Thats right, a flight simulator! Well, ok, flight sim is a broad term and its more like an early version of Descent, but this was programmed over 5 years ago and was quite impressive at the time. You could fly around little blue and red mountains and eventually find the programmers' "Credits" for Excel scrolling away somewhere.

Before you ask, here's how to do it if you've still got Excel97.

* Load Excel 97
* Hit F5 ("Go To")
* Enter "x97:l97" to go to cell x97-l97 (thats a lower case L)
* Hit Tab
* Press Ctrl+Shift+ using the mouse click the Chart/Graph Wizard icon on the toolbar
* ... and there you go, use the cursor keys, spacebar,enter, to control ...

marcel · #12 27th September 2001, 19:18

Hi:

In spanish "tablero electronico" is as a BaaN PCM function...

Bien le bonjour
Marcel

Jurrien · #13 1st October 2001, 16:47

Hi,

A colleague of mine told me about this discussion related to Baan enhancements.
Sometimes I use a simple TicTacToe session to explain some 4GL basics.
If you're interested I could make a dump of it .

Jurrien

Germanicus · #14 2nd October 2001, 23:37

Hello Jurrien,

I have viseted your technical Tools Training in May of this year.
Nice to meet you again in this board.

By the way: that Tic Tac Toe stuff is quite cool.
Thanks for that.

Regards

Germanicus

patvdv · #15 3rd October 2001, 00:15

Hi Jurrien,

I'd love to see the TicTacToe game. I think alot of folks here would appreciate you making the dump. You can attach it to any post as long as the size < 100K.