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VFP ActiveDocuments on the WWW
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16/02/1999 00:34:53
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Internet applications
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00187837
Message ID:
00187927
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Hiya Rick ----

>>My understanding is that Active Document apps "push" the right DLL's and EXE's over to the client machine automatically and registers them but I'm not finding this to be the case.
>
>Nope. ActiveDocs cause only the .APP file to download - nothing else. if you need to support files you have to wrap them into the Application (or tables) and dump them out when the app runs for the first time. It's a major drag.
>

I suspected as much and that is a drag. I was hoping that I was wrong.

>Furthermore the app runs in Temporary Files, and can be wiped out by the IE
>cache mechanism, so storing persistent data there is not a good idea.
>

I also saw a hint of that in my tests. But I thought that I was doing something wrong....man, that blows. Ok, so, realistically, we can say that VFP apps should not be Active Docs and we all need to learn HTML, JavaScript, and VBScript (blech) to be effective on the web, eh?

I wonder....is it any different with VB Active Documents?

Thanks again, Rick.
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John Koziol, ex-MVP, ex-MS, ex-FoxTeam. Just call me "X"
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter Thompson (Gonzo) RIP 2/19/05
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