But after I had made a selection, the only way to bring back the window was to restart the entire program. The more I used Paradox, the more I saw that the welcome screen didn t really help at all. It s more of an aesthetic feature. The tutorial about the welcome window, on the other hand, is long, boring and poorly designed for interactivity. The absence of procedures to follow or exercises to complete will have you dozing off in no time.
Paradox is constructed from confusing multiple toolbars and menu items.
All should be better organized and better explained. To figure out how to create the test database of work-related contacts effortless in FileMaker Pro 5 I had to consult the thick Paradox user s guide, and even that wasn t easy to use. Its 500-plus pages of database jargon left me feeling sleepy, but it did make an excellent reference guide for figuring out Paradox 9. Eventually I found myself vacillating between two windows, trying to add fields and not understanding why some fields wouldn t add. I didn t have to do that in FileMaker.