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VFP on Macs
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13/12/1999 08:57:09
Shane Gilbert
Oklahoma State Department of Education
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00301862
Message ID:
00302656
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>Now that I have some useful applications written in VFP 6.0 SP3, thank to the help my fellow Ut-ers, I’m now asked to make these applications available to our Mac users.
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>I’ve heard that there is VFP for Macs, but how viable is it to recompile these apps on the Mac OS? What are some of the pitfalls to watch out for? What about API issues? Where can I purchase it?
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>Any other advice is welcome.
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>TIA

I work mostly with FP2.6 on the Mac, but we have a few apps written in VFP including one in development right now. If you are running on the newer Macs G3 or G4, speed is not a problem. There are a few quirks with the development environment but no too many. The biggest pain is not having a right mouse button on the silly Mac. I also found that if you move the memory settings to 3 or 4 times the default that helps alot. There is virtually no support for any Mac specific programming issues, since very few use it. And it is VFP 3.0, which is has its limits and bugs. Have fun.

Shane Gilbert
--Shane
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