I wrote a POS in FoxPro 2.0 a number of years ago for cruise ships. A problem I had was that tables corrupted easily due to the harsh electrical environment...is this going to be a networked application (multiple POSs?). The reason I am asking is that you may wish to consider doing this as a two tier application with a manager's PC or server PC running SQL Server to keep things nimble at the front-end and to avoid data corruption.

You also should look at the transaction volume before deciding on the platform...sometimes, Windows applications don't do so well in a rapid-keystroke situation and, in those cases, you may wish to consider a (gasp!) CUI in a DOS window.


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>I am looking for a suitable language for a POS application.
>The POS system will be running on Win95/98/NT platform. It should
>be a touch screen one.
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>Is vfp suitable for it ? Or there is a much more suitable language for
>this kind of application. ?
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>Anyone had done a POS system before using vfp or other language, please
>kindly advise the con and pro.
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>Any suggestion or comment is very much appreciated. Thank you