The codebase was clean and extensible. I built out a standard lib (I/O sync/async, networking, array methods, dictionary class, XML utilities (DOM/SAX). Then built out database functionality that included auto exporting to various formats, many tabs and with optional conditional formatting. Built the UI from the ground up to be async by building all UI components to be ‘reactive’ and have standardized interfaces. Started with just the frame & label and made my version of the modern web design in VBA’s user form. All components were reusable—from buttons, checkboxes, custom filterable drop-downs, tables, and the ability to display a subset of markdown (which allowed end users write their own documentation for the workflows they’d end up owning)
It had standardized parser interface that allowed for quick buildout of a new parser class; same for full pages. The navigation was completely dynamic and handled by the routing/navigation module. The permissions for all users were in a hosted database and the ui would only build out what the user had permission for and nothing more. SQLServer would handle user authentication as it would get the users name from the connection metadata.
I handed over the project a few months back to a former colleague, one who has only been programming for about a year and one who only knew how to do macro recordings. Since leaving, the application has thrived and is used all across the country, supporting hundreds...
Just before I moved on, I started working on a VBA native toy browser that supported basic HTML, but ended up leaving and not finishing it.
One pain in the ass was custom :hover functionality over ui components. Tried a lot... even tried hooking into window messages, but that messed up some async events...
I think I went off topic, but it wasn’t really a problem.
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