>>>2) Citrix and other remote access systems work well with VB, they are abysmal with VFP.
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>>Jim
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>>Sorry to drop in there for a very specific question.
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>>I am on the verge of evaluating a VFP app with CITRIX or MS equiv for a customer account. You scared me.
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>>What is the pb with VFP over Citrix ? Any alternative
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>>Thanks in advance
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>Francois,
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>The problem is that everything is very very slow. This is because unlike VB or Delphi or other windows dev tools, VFP's controls and forms are not Windows objects, they are VFP objects. This causes Citrix to resend the entire screen everytime a textbox changes its value. With the deve tools that use windows objects Citrix only sends the changed control for display.
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>IMO, and I may be shot for this, but VFP is not a good choice if Citrix is part of the equation. I would use VB for the UI and perhaps use VFP to build ActiveX servers for managing the data.

Thanks for your fast answer.

In fact i am currently deploying a C/S VFP app using Sybase Anywhere. It runs smartly on the main office LAN.

As we know need to deploy the app to a series of local entities i was considering to advise a citrix server to improve service and ease deployment. I understand we have to drop this alternative.

From what you say we will have to stick to classical ODBC based C/S traffic. The wan runs 64k dedicated lines. From your experience, is this bandwith typically good enough for VFP based C/S app?

Regards from Paris