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25/04/2016 10:23:51
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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Windows XP SP2
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Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01635157
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01635364
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>I've taken a look at the video and frankly, I was about to Laugh Out Loud.

Thierry, I believe you mis-understand. I know your solution is available and doable! But I want a real desktop program. And if you are interested take a second look. Electron is not some dumb thing you can use to get hello world to print on a screen. Anything you can do on the web can be and is being done with Electron. But much more important to me is the fact that NodeJS is used and can access all the resources that a desktop normally can have access too. Such as the file system, the USB ports, acting like a client server, access to the internet, using com objects, activeX, ASP stuff - you name it. Everything that a Foxpro program can do. BTW there are about a 1000 examples available on the web using Electron. The web frameworks like react, ember, Kkendo UI, Angular, and many more work with Electron.

That said, what I was hoping for was a way to move the foxpro stuff over to Electron and slowly move away from fox. I was hoping that your tools just might a way to get to that intermediate state and be a desktop program using some sort of backend.

BTW my need of cross platform is important which is way I moved to python. So the fact that Electron is cross platform and is still a desktop program is very important to me.

Johnf
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