Hey Kevin,
Thanks again for all your extensive input - I really appreciate your
taking the time to reply. And, yes, I think a 3-day trial is sufficient
for my purposes!
Regards,
Kurt
On 11/13/2012 11:57 AM, Kevin Cully wrote:
On 11/13/2012 11:16 AM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote:
When you say Non-UI, what does that really mean? Only the data
processing and manipulation routines can be shared?
Yes. The UI elements are specific to the various platforms so
interfacing with them wouldn't cross over. However, developing for a
desktop application and a web application are developed in a similar
way. For example, you could put this same code in the 'Action()'
event of a button. ('Action()' in Real Studio is the equivalent of
'Click()' in VFP) no matter whether it is on the desktop or in a web
application: MsgBox("Why, hello there ProFox mailing list!") Yup,
this code works both on the desktop and on the web even though it is a
"pushButton" on desktop and a "webButton" on a web application!
Doesn't that look like VFP? Or at least our old FoxPro command.
What about the data. Is it DBF's and/or DBC's like VFP? OR is it
strictly that you tie into a server data source like MySql? Again -
just curious - and trying to figure out what's involved...
You have options as far as accessing data. Natively and built in is
the SQLite data engine which they call RealSQLDatabase. This is a
really good thing because guess what databases are supported on
phones: SQLite. Just like in the VFP world however, most people
develop against a full SQL Server however. I'm a big fan of
PostgreSQL, but there are plugins for MYSql, Oracle, PostgreSQL. The
rest of the databases are accessible by the ODBC plugin. I believe
there are other database specific plugins available for purchase from
3rd party companies but I haven't looked into it.
I suspect that is something that they ARE working on - for near
future releases?
Yes, 64bit is in their road map. They are changing over to the LLVM
compiler which will make getting to 64bit much easier. It will make
getting to the phone platforms easier as well.
So - in essence - although one can NOT Yet make a native mobile app
yet - once Can run a Web app on a mobile device and it will be aware
of it being run on a Mobile device - and screen layout can be made to
change accordingly?
Yes, you can, on the Session.OrientationChanged() event then send down
a different page but I haven't needed it yet. Then anchor properties
on the webforms make the resizing very familiar to what we normally
see when a window is resized. Most of the time, I just lock a button
to the lower+right, and allow the listbox to resize and I'm good.
It was mentioned in another e-mail thread that in 2013 - there would
be a "Free" version to use - or at least a version that one could try
their hands at - while there would be a cost to a version for
deployment. Right? I'm curious to know if there is a version now that
I could play with - like a demo version - before laying out cash I
don't have. I would essentially buy the dev. version if I can
actually GET this project I am currently looking into...
I believe that you can use the demo version for 30 days without paying
right now. If you need more time than that, just contact Real
Software, Inc. and ask for another key that should allow for another
30 days. They're pretty nice about that kind of stuff.
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