> On May 27, 2004, at 1:11 PM, Adrocknaphobia wrote:
>
> > But you still have to get the client to install eveything locally
> off
> > the disk for any database interation. So it's not just oing to
> > automatically run. In essense the exact same limitations that don't
> > work well for an application will be applied with a read-only
> > database.
I did a little experimenting with cfexecute, and yes you can write a CF
program to copy the CD contents to the local hard drive.
It took about 3 minutes to copy the entire 60 Meg -- but:
--I have a lot of other stuff going on
--the CD contains a lot of unneeded stuff (for execution of your app)
-- Docs, Source, Examples, etc.
There is no install, per se -- just run the CF app that makes the copy,
then execute the copy from hard disk.
You might even be able to automate the switchover from CD to HD. The
Copy app could use cfexecute to:
-- setup a chronjob to start CFAnywhere from HD
-- shutdown itself running from CD
You kind of have to "Re-think" things -- you are executing on the
desktop, not on a server. Your CF apps have access (with the
appropriate permissions) to the entire Desktop, file system, underlying
CLI, OS Scripting, etc.
You can actually write CF apps that talk to Word, Excel, Photoshop,
acrobat, iTunes... yadda, yadda, yadda!
for example, if you don't like the way CF handles regexps, pass it to
Perl --- not that you would, but you could!
You could ripple through your iTunes library and retrieve the album
covers from the internet.
Dick
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