Ok Arthur,
What do you want to say with those dots?
NOTHING SPECIFIC (perhaps only the fact that example like this should be part of the manual). I also have put a word of appreciation and you trying to turn it into something else, and I do not understand why. Perhaps you are to serious about everything, but thanks for your comments. Obviously IF I'm not happy with the software or community I simply turn into another product. As I understand I have a 30 days to figure out if I like it. One of the ways to figure that out is to see how easy I can learn to use B4A and how fast I can create something productive. I used few other development products in the past and the community was great, so I'm not new to this. Yes, perhaps I got spoiled with other products that I use. Those products as everything also have had their downsides. Some of them were easy to learn (because community was very helpful), some of them were supplied with excellent documentation and examples.
The argument "don't expect to much for the money" is not for me. It is not how much I pay (I could pay a triple of what I paid) if the software lets me do what I want and saves me time. In my case SAVING TIME is crucial ! It is a matter how much and how fast I could do. I'm to old for playing and trying to figure out things on my own and spending hundreds of hours doing that, as I have to have App ready. Some people like coding. I'm a type of "lazy programmer" and want to get things done fast. Perhaps this product is not for me - I don't know yet. I'm not saying I don't want to code or want some cookie cutter type tool, but want to code as little as possible with the best possible result, and the reason is simple: I do value my time and my potential customer doesn't care if I use a 'cookie cutter" type software or I coded manually. They want the program working the way they expect.
If learning curve is just to long and to complex I will just quit and go for something else.
You must understand that people will be coming to this forum from different environments and with different habits, and skills. some of them could be even like first time programmers who never ever did any development before. If you (or somebody else on this forum) has no patience to answer or to understand new users frustration, just ignore the messages and do not answer at all.
I already dealt with one company with this type of attitude like "hey,.. do not criticize our software, or company", and guess what? They are almost gone from the market. So, please understand that some criticism is a positive thing (unless one complains 99% of the time).
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If you prefer a spreaded bed (sorry, translated Dutch expression and don't bother to have a search) this is not the correct approach.
First of all: there are some forum topic, examples, etc. about working with databases.
Second: SQL(ite) has it's own commands. I would like to advice you to have a look at the B4A examples and then go to SQL/SQLite info pages on Internet.
>>I think I can handle SQL, and I'm not asking about this part. This post was exactly about one of the examples.
B4A can handle all the SQL(ite) queries and commands.
If you want to do some programming, start searching, try to understand the code and try something on your one.
>>that's what I'm trying to do here, and that's why I ask those questions
>>well, when you were 7 years old (or so) and you were sent to school, they didn't tell you go and search, or try, but you were given a book and a teacher to start with, then later when you were a student and wanted to expand your knowledge that was the time to do your search. This is how things work. Most of the time the beginners do not even know what to search for. Perhaps you are advanced with B4A and you already forgot that time, perhaps you have different approach to things (and that's OK), we are all different and that makes world so beautiful. I respect your opinion as you should respect mine.
In my post I referred to specific example and your message did not help me much. Thank you for your time anyway.