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Desperate Help needed
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09/08/2009 23:22:36
 
 
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07/08/2009 15:25:34
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Internet applications
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01416577
Message ID:
01417042
Views:
73
>>The story: client needs, for their client, fast way to web-ify a current VFP app. Thinking creatively, we put it on a terminal server and have the users use IE to connect, and via the msrdp ts control get a nice box of a VFP app inside their browser. We even quickly change the form appearance to _look_ like a website. We are proud of ourselves.
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>>PROBLEM: Client's client sees it, loves it,until they find out it will not run on a Mac, and requires IE. Even though our client approved that, now everyone is hysterical.
>>
>>The client aspects are under control. I have 1 question:
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>>What is the best RAD system for making this app run under IE, Firefox, and Safari, PC and Mac. No exceptions. And need to use the VFP tables.
>
>Why not have everyone run their own TS client? I run VFP and VFP apps via a remote client from an Ubuntu box... just that I don't launch it from a browser, but have to click an icon on the desktop.
>
>And in other situations, when I was running it via launching Citrix/ICA in the browser (and FF worked so I didn't bother with IE), the app would still run in its own window, not in the browser.

What is the licensing situation (cost) when the server is Ubuntu box?

Alex
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