Welcome

Welcome to the site of the Visual DataFlex Structure Viewer, a free third party tool, especially designed for Visual DataFlex developers. This tool was first build in 1999 and presented at the developers conference in Miami.

If you are not familiar with Visual DataFlex (VDF), it is an advanced software tool for building world class business solution software, mostly database based. More information about Visual DataFlex can be found at www.visualdataflex.com and www.dataaccess.com.

Purpose

The DataFlex framework relies heavily on well designed database relationships. Joins on database tables are automatically performed if database relationships are properly set up. To get an insight in the working of complex database applications this tool might be some help. Undesigned 'diamond relationships' (though supported by VDF) can be made visible within minutes. 

It first need to scan the workspace environment. When all relationships have been scanned the Visual DataFlex Structure Viewer can produce a graphical view of your underlying system. The result provides an editable vector-based view, so you can modify the layout after the initial scan. It can be stored as picture, to include the new graphics in a report to document your system.

Requirements

You will need a VDF Development or Client License to run the program, but the tool can scan older versions of DataFlex as well as all (registered) Visual DataFlex workspaces. VDF Structure Viewer is completely written in Visual DataFlex and makes use of some third party activex components.