Yeesh, dude, read what you wrote before sending!
My second Q (below) should have said that I'm thinking about the $1500/year version of Alpha Anywhere (client-side only) and pairing it with Foxweb on the server end. If you're not familiar with Foxweb, you submit text indicating functions and parameters via HTML put and get back HTML strings of data. I know Alpha Anywhere's server can do a lot more than that, but I'm not sure I need all the bells and whistles.
Mike
Mike Copeland wrote:
I know I've seen posts on here from at least one user of Alpha XBasic software. I'm now on day 15 of my 30 day trial and have a few generic questions...
Stuff like: Is Alpha Anywhere mostly about Javascript/HTML5 and brings along the XBasic and Alpha5 infrastructure as a freebie? Or is the Alpha5 XBasic more integral and important than it seems to be. (It seems most tasks are accomplished with Javascript.)
Is the Client/Server version ($2500 year) worth the extra $1k over the basic package, or can the server functions be accomplished in other ways? I have a copy of and have used FoxWeb, which has always seemed clunky, but it works. Could that be used in place of the Alpha Anywhere Client/Server or is that a false savings?
Is the Alpha Anywhere documentation as bad as I think it is? Or am I just acting my age ("You kids! Get off my lawn!")
And a few other tidbits.
I'd be happy to take this off-list if it produces too much noise for everyone, but then maybe some others would find the info useful...I dunno.
Thanks for any responses.
Mike Copeland
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