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VFP app on Chrome book?
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20/04/2024 09:37:23
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Visual FoxPro
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Tablet PC
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01687876
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01687912
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Do you know if a VFP 9 app can run on a Chrome book?
>>
>>Chrome book uses ChromeOS -- so it can't run on it ... however you could use RDP and connect to a windows machine or windows VM and run it from there.
>
>Uuuuhm, read recently that there is an effort to port WINE to Android.
>As Android apks can run in ChromeOS, I would not rule that out forever.
>
>Licensing of the runtime still another question -
>no idea if MS is still as stiff necked as when vfp plus runtime were
>tried and tweaked to run under WINE
>
>Today running vfp under Linux with WINE, Bottles, PlayOnLinux or
>other emulation layers at least is no problem, if all COM controls
>you want to run are running as well (dunno status of IE or WebView2)

I think all these technologies will come into play after I retire.
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