What i can do with This cuestion ?

[capri1966]

Hi, i've an application developed with VFP and it's works very fine, but today a customer
(always asking for the Moon), has raised me the posibility to store orders in a tablet and
update this order in VFP Database. What options attempt to do this. The original order could be
in another format but i must update in VFP.

 

[Nigel Gomm]

one option might be to remote desktop into your VFP application running on a terminal server (or windows desktop)somewhere.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-android-remote-desktop-apps-compared/

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-remote-desktop-apps-ipad/

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1722648

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ericom.accesstogobyericom&hl=en

hth

nigel

 

[JRB-Bldr]

Since most of the Tablet OS's (see:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&qpcustomd=1)

will not support VFP for app development, you need to educate yourself on those other languages that would be supported in your customer's Tablets.

I'll admit that I am not personally familiar with Tablet apps (yet!), but assuming that your Tablet app can acquire and update information from a remote database (such as a SQL Server, etc.) your existing VFP application could be updated from that source.
(see Google search results for: "tablet app to remote SQL Server")

In order to do that you might have to create a 2nd VFP application to run as a 'data synchronizer' which would read the SQL Server (or whatever) and then synchronize its data with the primary VFP applications's VFP data tables on a regular basis using some timer.

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[Mike Lewis]

If you're not constrained by your choice of tablet, keep in mind that there are a few tablets around which support the full version of Windows 8.x (as opposed to the RT version that runs on ARM processors). Those tablets also support VFP. One example that comes to mind is the HP Envy, which runs VFP apps with no problems.

That said, if you're moving into the mobile world, you might prefer not to be constrained by Windows or VFP, but to go the whole way to a mainstream mobile development platform.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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