Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:14 AM, memilanuk wrote: >> But more likely, what >> you really want is a cut-down UI that simplifies things: if the user >> is data-entry level, you take away all the admin-type options. It >> might be possible to fiddle around in internals and gain elevated >> access, b

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-23 Thread memilanuk
On 07/21/2014 11:26 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Monte Milanuk wrote: On 2014-07-21, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Monte Milanuk wrote: So I guess I'm asking for advice or simplified examples of how to go about connecting a client deskt

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-07-21, Roy Smith wrote: > The truly sucky part of this picture is that javascript is a horrible > language, I'm pretty sure that the real purpose of PHP is to make javascript look like a good programming language. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! RELATIVES!!

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-22 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On 2014-07-21 16:07:22 +, Monte Milanuk said: So I guess I'm asking for advice or simplified examples of how to go about connecting a client desktop app to a parent/master desktop app, so I can get some idea of how big of a task I'm looking at here, and whether that would be more or less dif

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-22 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Monte Milanuk wrote: > Well... thats part of where my lack of experience with js or complex > projects using anything other than just python is going to show: > initially I thought javascript was just for buttons/effects in the > client browser as thats all the tri

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-22 Thread Lele Gaifax
Monte Milanuk writes: > On 2014-07-22, Lele Gaifax wrote: >> On the other hand, it has good and extensive examples, so the learning >> curve is not so steep (I'm clearly biased here, but I introduced several >> young developers to that environment and that's what they said too). > > Any experien

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-22 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 2014-07-22, Lele Gaifax wrote: > On the other hand, it has good and extensive examples, so the learning > curve is not so steep (I'm clearly biased here, but I introduced several > young developers to that environment and that's what they said too). Any experience with angular js? Browsing th

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-22 Thread Lele Gaifax
CHIN Dihedral writes: >> > almost nothing about JS. I worked thru a short generic tutorial a couple >> > Please check Pyjs and Python with flash > in http://pyjs.org/examples/Space.html > for the front end part of GUI under a > browser. > Yes, that's an option: I used Pyjamas (btw, did it surv

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-21 Thread CHIN Dihedral
> > almost nothing about JS. I worked thru a short generic tutorial a couple > Please check Pyjs and Python with flash in http://pyjs.org/examples/Space.html for the front end part of GUI under a browser. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-21 Thread Lele Gaifax
Monte Milanuk writes: > On 2014-07-21, Lele Gaifax wrote: >> Monte Milanuk writes: >>> How hard was it to migrate from a desktop app to what you have now? >> >> Well, basically I rewrote everything, there's nothing in common. The >> original application was written in Delphi, using Paradox tabl

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-21 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Monte Milanuk wrote: > Any hints/opinions on what those drawbacks might be? I know literally > almost nothing about JS. I worked thru a short generic tutorial a couple > years ago, but nothing like these libraries I see people talking about > now like jquery, angular, ext, and so

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-21 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 2014-07-21, Lele Gaifax wrote: > Monte Milanuk writes: >> How hard was it to migrate from a desktop app to what you have now? > > Well, basically I rewrote everything, there's nothing in common. The > original application was written in Delphi, using Paradox tables, no > i18n, no multiuser, no

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-21 Thread Lele Gaifax
Monte Milanuk writes: > On 2014-07-21, Lele Gaifax wrote: >> I manage small events with a single notebook and a low cost printer, >> without network connection, while major events with a network connection >> may be managed online. >> >> You can try it out at http://sol3.arstecnica.it/, using g

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Monte Milanuk wrote: > On 2014-07-21, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Monte Milanuk wrote: >>> So I guess I'm asking for advice or simplified examples of how to >>> go about connecting a client desktop app to a parent/master desktop app,

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-21 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 2014-07-21, Lele Gaifax wrote: > I manage small events with a single notebook and a low cost printer, > without network connection, while major events with a network connection > may be managed online. > > You can try it out at http://sol3.arstecnica.it/, using guest/guest as > username/passwo

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-21 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 2014-07-21, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Monte Milanuk wrote: >> So I guess I'm asking for advice or simplified examples of how to >> go about connecting a client desktop app to a parent/master desktop app, >> so I can get some idea of how big of a task I'm looking

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-21 Thread Lele Gaifax
Monte Milanuk writes: > I need to create a particular application for administering a sporting > event. 95% (and this may be understating the case) of the 'users' would > likely be single-machine, single user scenarios. For those exceptions > (which are important enough that I'm concerned ove

Re: Network/multi-user program

2014-07-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Monte Milanuk wrote: > So I guess I'm asking for advice or simplified examples of how to > go about connecting a client desktop app to a parent/master desktop app, > so I can get some idea of how big of a task I'm looking at here, and > whether that would be more o