Access OK here in the UK Thierry
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Thierry Nivelet Sent: 03 February 2017 15:27 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: SQL Backend Question
For those who are interested in *responsive web apps*, below is a video showing a Web App created with FoxInCloud from an existing 'legacy' VFP app.
FoxInCloud V 2.24 (due to release on 02/15) integrates Bootstrap and generates Bootstrap-aware HTML forms/pages based on the original VFP form design (IOW how controls are geometrically laid out on the form surface)
FoxInCloud automates the whole HTML/CSS/JS dynamic generation, only some additional CSS was provided by a designer to make main buttons, pages and transition more 'sexy'.
The app's author continues his evolutions: any change in the form layout will be reflected when HTML is generated at next server startup.
(I'm not very familiar with Youtube privacy settings, so please let me know if you can access the video)
Thierry Nivelet FoxInCloud Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud http://foxincloud.com/
Le 03/02/2017 à 15:56, Stephen Russell a écrit :
Go web based UI and from there you can pick any backend for data you want.
Generating UI for desktop is so limiting for your users last year, this year and the future. Just saying. I am looking at having all my UI have to work across iPad and cell phones. Because it is information that we are presenting. It isn't required to be at a user's desk to suddenly have value.
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Paul H. Tarver paul@tpcqpc.com wrote:
Ok, I've lurked here long enough. I've been subscribed to this list for several months and I have thoroughly enjoyed the questions and answers that have come through during that time. I'm even a little star-struck when I see the names of Foxpro experts that I have depended upon for years to help educate me to be a better Foxpro programmer. Thank you all for all you do in this list group. Now it is time for me to ask what is probably going to sound like a dumb question coming from someone who has been using Foxpro since Foxlan but I figure I have nothing to lose here and everything to gain.
For the past few years I have been honing my skills as a developer of data interfaces and until recently, the few full-fledged data entry projects I've build relied upon native Foxpro dbf files. However, my interface work has been depending more and more upon using SQL pass-through language to issue queries against various SQL backend systems and I have been pretty successful at retrieving data from various systems and then re-formatting that data for other uses.
For a while now, I've been contemplating building a data-entry and maintenance system from the ground up that depends completely upon using a SQL database (Firebird, MySQL, MS SQL, Postgres or something similar). My problem is that I have all these data handling classes built into a couple of simple toolbars that I can drop on form and provide the standard Add, Delete, Undo, Save and Exit functionality as well as a vcr toolbar to skip between records. These tools include all of the code necessary to detect changes enable various buttons based on conditions, etc. stuff we are all familiar with.
Now I'm trying to wrap my head around the whole concept of changing the way I depend upon Foxpro to handle much of the behind the scenes table activity and create a new user interface that conforms to the how SQL works while maintaining as much of the familiar functionality I'm so happy with in Foxpro.
Does anyone have any recommendations for where I should go to learn more about the best practices for developing user interfaces that work efficiently with SQL backends, and what do I need to know about how to collect data and insert it into the sql tables, detect user changes to flag for saving data. In some software they seemed to have ditched the Add, Delete, Undo, Save, Exit concept to just save everytime there is keystroke. And in other systems, they keep parts of that old style of user interaction. Are there any libraries that can be purchased or downloaded to handle some of the behind the scenes data manipulation for SQL that I can use to learn how this stuff should work.
For something that seems to be easy, I'm having a hard time letting go of my 20+ years of doing things the Foxpro way to make the transition.
Any thoughts?
Paul H. Tarver Tarver Program Consultants, Inc.
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