TheunisP
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| Posted: 01/15/2006, 7:30 AM |
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Hi 1 and all, I need to create a stand alone app - and due to being spoiled by using CCS and just plain lazy, I was wondering if any one had experience with products for creating stand alone apps fast, similiar to CCS?
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peterr
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| Posted: 01/15/2006, 9:38 AM |
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Maybe MS Access for smaller applications, plus I would recommend taking a look at R:BASE (http://www.rbase.com/), which is based on Delphi and requires as little coding as CCS. A possible issue may be that R:BASE is sold as a database system (like MS SQL or MySQL, etc.) and the development tool comes with it, rather than vice-versa. So you would have to use that database. But their database is robust and resulting applications I've seen are standard .exe and look like regular Windows applications. You can also use it to visually create PDF reports with charts that you can then open from a Web page created with CCS.
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Benjamin Krajmalnik
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| Posted: 01/15/2006, 1:11 PM |
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Clarion
http://www.softvelocity.com
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Walter Kempees
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| Posted: 01/15/2006, 2:01 PM |
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Clarion
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TheunisP
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| Posted: 01/15/2006, 2:28 PM |
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Peterr, will have a look at it - for interest sake - but I'll need to go with an Access/SQL solution
Clarion, now that is a memory lane trip - I had a look a their site quickly - but they don't seem to offer a trial version - to test my proposed solution...
What I did find, after browsing at download.com was maybe another option, what about running the CCS solution on a client's PC - WITHOUT a web server!?
http://www.eztools-software.com/tools/hsp/default.asp
Check it out - haven't tested it yet but if it works it has a variety of advantages: 1) no need to code 2 solutions 2) the interface for the stand alone and web solution is the same - no new learning curve for the user etc etc
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TheunisP
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| Posted: 01/15/2006, 2:37 PM |
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It works!! And it's incredibly fast... just ran the sample code that they give - connect to my DB, pulled data the whole 9 yards... and without a a webserver being set up 
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peterr
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| Posted: 01/15/2006, 3:08 PM |
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OK. I just assumed that you wanted to create a desktop application with desktop interface.
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TheunisP
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| Posted: 01/15/2006, 3:16 PM |
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Thanks anyhow Peterr, always appreciate your input - the long and short of my problem was that some of our client don't have broadband and is on very expensive dial-up - so just need a port of the most basic lookups - the solution I think I'll end up is doing a local snapshot of a section of the DB to Access and create a very small (but similiar looking) search for them using the HSP program I found - the price is so so - but the benefits are the deciding factor
ps. using their compiler it actually encrypts the ASP pages - so I don't even need to worry about code thieves, protecting the DB user and password etc.!
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Walter Kempees
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| Posted: 01/15/2006, 3:20 PM |
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Nice, good luck.
Also misunderstood the original challenge.
Be advised if it were PhP, MySQL WAMPP woul have given a runable solution
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> Thanks anyhow Peterr, always appreciate your input - the long and short of
> my
> problem was that some of our client don't have broadband and is on very
> expensive dial-up - so just need a port of the most basic lookups - the
> solution I think I'll end up is doing a local snapshot of a section of the
> DB
> to Access and create a very small (but similiar looking) search for them
> using
> the HSP program I found - the price is so so - but the benefits are the
> deciding factor
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> ps. using their compiler it actually encrypts the ASP pages - so I don't
> even
> need to worry about code thieves, protecting the DB user and password
> etc.!
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TheunisP
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| Posted: 01/15/2006, 3:30 PM |
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Yes W, I kind of moved the goal posts on this one - I actually fired up the old VB6 IDE - when I thought that there must something to help me with this little 'problem' - but I think the reworked solution will do fine
Thanks also for the pinter to WAMPP will keep it in mind
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