It's been a good, long summer, Labor Day has come and gone, and now it's time for me to resume learning WinDev in an hour a day.
I hadn't fired up WinDev in over a month, and when I did I got the following splash screen:
I can only think my brain has grown a little fuzzy with disuse, because I don't recall seeing that in a long, long time if at all. I must have set my name (no password) a long time ago and clicked on Don't display any more. But just for fun I tried clicking Validate without entering my name. WinDev fired up but displayed the following message:
Fair enough. I didn't see any option in the menus to change my login, so I restarted WinDev. This time around I entered my name and, just for grins, clicked on the Parameters link. I wasn't sure what to expect, but it turns out this all about the Control Centers.
I realized I was a little unclear on the concept of control centers, so I did some Googling and came up with a page on the PC Soft site that provided some clarity.
First, the definition: "A Control Center gives you a global view of the corresponding area, during the development phase, on a deployed site or for the maintenance and the evolution of the applications."
There are control centers for:
- Project monitoring
- Quality control
- Reusability
- Document management
- HyperfileSQL engines and databases (redistributable)
- Users (redistributable)
While reading the page on project management I came across the concept of a database of control centers.
