rickesilaw
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has anyone written application for Palm or any of the other hand helds?
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VFP on a handheld
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what exactly are you after? what do you need to do?
if you're trying to develop graphically for a Palm or handheld, that won't be possible unless you write a web app and connect the handheld to the internet.
in the other hand if you want to write an app to acces data wireless that's another story. let me know what is it that you want
if you're trying to develop graphically for a Palm or handheld, that won't be possible unless you write a web app and connect the handheld to the internet.
in the other hand if you want to write an app to acces data wireless that's another story. let me know what is it that you want
Mike Lewis
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Rickesilaw,
You cannot write a real VFP app on a hand-held because VFP runs under Windows. However, some hand-helds support a DOS emulator, so it might be possible to write an app in FoxPro for DOS. But that's just a guess. I've never tried doing that, and don't know how easy it would be.
An alternative might be to use a tablet PC, which runs Windows XP and therefore fully supports VFP.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
You cannot write a real VFP app on a hand-held because VFP runs under Windows. However, some hand-helds support a DOS emulator, so it might be possible to write an app in FoxPro for DOS. But that's just a guess. I've never tried doing that, and don't know how easy it would be.
An alternative might be to use a tablet PC, which runs Windows XP and therefore fully supports VFP.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
Take a look at this link:
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Even more Fox stuff at:
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Even more Fox stuff at:
For those of you diving into the .NET realm, there is a toolkit available for .NET called VFPToolkit. It is available @ . Scroll to the bottom.
I just finished two applications in .NET. One of the apps was for a Symbol Handheld and this toolkit was awesome!
My handheld app uses a ASP.NET application for the front-end and a Foxpro application and a COM object written by one of our vendors to process the output of the Web App into a foxpro database.
We have all the kinks worked out now and this has been awesome and extremely reliable.
I just finished two applications in .NET. One of the apps was for a Symbol Handheld and this toolkit was awesome!
My handheld app uses a ASP.NET application for the front-end and a Foxpro application and a COM object written by one of our vendors to process the output of the Web App into a foxpro database.
We have all the kinks worked out now and this has been awesome and extremely reliable.
craigsboyd
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Very good information. Thank you for the link.
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Very good information. Thank you for the link.
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[/sup]We have written an app that works on PocketPC, Palm and Symbian with a framework called AppForge ... - Appforge integrates into VB6 and is very flexible, object orientated and easy to learn if you are are comfortable with basic commands in VB. We keep constant contact with our backend server via some powerful internet tools - socket based. Our backend IIS server uses VFP8 and Rick Strahl's West Wind Connection.
We couldn't go the browser based route as we need to constantly provide our drivers with delivery information and the internet contact is iffy in many places and we needed to capture signatures inside of buildings.
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We couldn't go the browser based route as we need to constantly provide our drivers with delivery information and the internet contact is iffy in many places and we needed to capture signatures inside of buildings.
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