>>>>>Can anyone recommend tools for converting a Visual FoxPro 9 Application to JavaScript?
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>>>>I believe FoxInCloud does this:
http://foxincloud.com/>>>
>>>Doesn't FoxInCloud require the VFP App to be running on the Server?
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>>I haven't used it and don't know a lot about it. There's a technical overview at
http://foxincloud.com/techno.php .
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>Hi Al,
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>Thanks for digging up this page that I had completely forgotten… was written in 2011 (6 years already…) and still absolutely true and appropriate.
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>@Marshal: as Tore mentioned, converting VFP code to JavaScript is virtually impossible (as was supposed impossible the fact of running an existing VFP app on the Web, until FoxInCloud came out…); given this evidence, FoxInCloud has chosen to create a JavaScript 'extension' to the VFP code, interacting with the VFP code:
>- generate HTML matching the form structure
>- implement VFP events as JavaScript events
>- JavaScript send events to the server for execution by the corresponding VFP code (same code as when running in desktop mode).
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>So in that sense you can consider that FoxInCloud changes your VFP application into a JavaScript (+ VFP) application.
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>When I write "generate HTML matching the form structure", it does not mean that the visual aspect must match the VFP look: thanks to the magic of CSS, you can apply any presentation layer (Cascading Style Sheet) to the HTML 'framework'.
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>eg. I invite you to try the
FoxinCloud Live Tutorial, available in 2 versions from the same VFP code base:
classic (VFP-like) and
Bootstrap (responsive).
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>You can even switch between these 2 versions on line!
Just noticed that the URLs for the 3 links at the bottom of your post are all the same - are they supposed to be?
And they all end in "bs", which is not ideal for English speakers ;)
Regards. Al
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