I think Thierry was talking about other server side process to create the templates - and there Javascript can access data backends just fine or act as an intermediary. Vfp data bindings probably more problematic, but Postgres can understand some JS by now.
So if you throw Node.Js into the mix, the statement is doable, but has to recreate some of the stuff FIC provides.


I really hope that he doesn't want to give anyone the wrong impression. One thing you must keep in mind is that JavaScript can't connect to any files on any machines, except the somewhat limited "local storage" system which was introduced with HTML5. This means that you must always have some "higher level" program running on a server in order to do any real data handling.
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>>Thanks Tore,
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>>that is a bit concerning. Maybe Thierry hasn't understood exactly what I meant by "run with it". I had understood that javascript code and html and csss get created and then the developers can take those files and get away completely from VFP and do all new development in whatever tools they want.
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>>>Believe me, I know FiC very well, what it can do (and some of what it can't). One thing it can't, is run without VFP9 and WWWC.
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>>>I have worked on a rather big FiC project, and no matter how you wrap it in or which words you use, it's still VFP9 running West-Wind Web Connection. Yes, you can change, remove and add features by writing JavaScript code. But you have to do it from within VFP9 or you can possibly use separate files which you then must add VFP9 code to call.
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>>>IOW you use VFP9 to write your programs and you use VFP9 to test them. If you want you can create an exe, just like you can with VFP9, meaning that the VFP9 runtime files are used.
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>>>Please note that I am a huge fan of FiC and I know that Thierry is an excellent programmer. I only don't want anyone to have the wrong impression of FiC.
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>>>>Tore,
>>>>sorry about the slow response. In Message ID 1642728 Thierry said:
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>>>>"> Hopefully FoxInCloud can do the initial conversion and then the web developers can take over and run with it changing out whatever they see fit.
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>>>>Yes, FoxInCloud can / is meant to do that.
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>>>>FoxInCloud generates a Web app where you have full control over user events.
>>>>You or any developer can, at any time, instruct FoxInCloud to ignore some user events that are implemented using another framework such as Angular or React, and another backend such as asp.net, Java or PHP. Of course you can also adapt the HTML generated to fit into these frameworks."
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>>>>>What has Thierry written that contradicts what I wrote? I have worked with FiC, and it was mostly VFP programming together with FiC base classes. FIC converts your VFP code to HTML, javascript and CSS. You can freely add your own javascript code, but it's still VFP code and VFP doing most of the work.
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>>>>>>That differs from what Thierry has stated