browser or mac table editor

[bcraig]

Would anyone know of a browser based or mac os x compatible structure editor for vfp .dbf tables?

 

[StewartUK]

bcraig,

I don't think there is one. Even Excel can't open VFP tables now (I can't remember which version of VFP this occurred at).

VFP is able to copy it's tables to all kinds of formats, including XML. Does that help - I do get the impression from your post that you don't have VFP?


Hope that helps,

Stewart
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[Neil Toulouse]

The last time I looked at "Filemaker Pro" (about 6 years ago) on a Mac it could read DBF's, but it may have only been the Foxbase type ones.

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[Neil Toulouse]

Could you use ODBC to connect to the VFP tables?

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[bcraig]

For corporate reasons, I have had to switch to a Mac Powerbook, and I am still responsible to support a vfp backend application for one of our clients. It has an ASP frontend with ODBC connections into the tables. I was looking for a convenient way to make structural table changes from OS X, or from a browser.

Worst case, I will purchase Virtual PC and install VFP on the Powerbook.

Regards
Brian

 

[Neil Toulouse]

If you can find an app that lets you do T-SQL commands via ODBC, you could then use the "SQL - ALTER TABLE" command to make the changes.

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[Neil Toulouse]

From a quick scan of google, I think VPC is probably the best way to go! I came across this - not sure if it's of any use to you:

http://www.clipx.net/

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