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Replace Good ol' Molebox!!
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03/03/2016 09:12:50
 
 
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02/03/2016 10:52:51
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Visual FoxPro
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Third party products
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01632330
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Bonjour Denis,

>I downloader Enigma but never really tested it.

My first tests on Enigma was unsuccessful. By the way, the offering includes two distinct flavors:
- a fully free packer (that did not for me),
- a more complex product (a dreadful UI IMHO) that offers encryption support

After a couple of unsuccessful tests, the software ran amok and locked up, possibly with the view that I was trying to cheat with the licensing. Of course I was not but I became unpleased for sure... I understand from Emre Metin on this very thread that he is using the free bundler and is happy with it. Good news:)

>I will look at BoxApp.

My first tests with BoxedApp (thanks Hank by the way) were successful.

The good points:
- it can encapsulate the VFP app properly
- it runs a virtual registry à la molebox for including COM-based stuff and activeX
- the UI is pretty straightforward (better than the molebox one),
- it is A-L-I-V-E and supported (molebox Alexéy Sudachén and Olga Marchevska closed their shop - I do not blame them - that's business life)

The bad ones:
- it does not offer encryption (molebox one was certainly breakable - but that was an added layer)
more importantly,
- runtime speed is on par with both native VFP and the one of moleboxed applications.
the WORST point (not dramatic but that's one bad point for sure):
- the STARTUP TIME IS ABSOLUTELY DISASTROUS at least on the workstations I tried to deploy as a test.

In the end, I really miss molebox. A great product that did make it. One more.

Daniel
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