John, just checking to see how your RealBasic development is going - and if you are finding it "bullet proof" of bugs on the development and end user end (I am not talking about my program bugs I would never have anyway...) ). The last thing in the world I will deal with is stability issues on a clients computer as they are spread all over the world - and this is where Fox shined for sure. I appreciate your comments on this. In the past there were complaints about RealBasic stablility, but I would suspect they have this puppy fixed by now.

Reason I ask is I am going to need to knock out a cross platform vertical market desktop accounting desktop app in the next 12 months, and this is best thing to do that currently (Mac and Windows and maybe Linux).

Mel


>As my title states, if you're still looking for a migration path from Visual Foxpro to something else, I would strongly suggest looking at RealStudio (formerly Realbasic, which is the language that it uses). I've been working with it for the last year and now starting to put into work developing applications.
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>Here's a couple of little know facts.
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>RealStudio is written in Realbasic. Fully object oriented and multi-threaded.
>Microsoft uses Realbasic to prototype Office for Mac in their own development community.
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>Some of the short comings of previous versions have been eliminated. They now have a built-in report writer, although 3rd party products seem to offer more features.
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>Built-in database (SQLite 3), however, it is recommended for single-user applications. They offer RealSQLServer for multi-user applications; however, there are other databases supported by RealStudio. If you develop an application using RealSQL database, you can jump to one of the other supported databases without re-coding. Very cool.
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>Additionally, RealStudio allows you to develop applications that are cross-platform without a lot of additional programming. And when I say cross-platform, I mean Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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>There's a lot to like in RealStudio and they have a 30 day demo; but it will take a bit longer than that to get your feet wet. I looked at .NET, but RealStudio creates executables that don't require a runtime or a multitude of DLL dependencies. You can literally develop an application for Windows (or the other cross platforms) that you can copy to a folder and run.
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>If you're looking for a product that provides the same flexibility and speed of development (and then some) that we came to love in VFP, then I would highly recommend RealStudio. The built-in classes allow you to do almost anything you could dream of. VB programmers should feel right at home.