> I've found that if I want something that will run on, and/or be accessed from > multiple platforms, and have a GUI interface, a web front end is the best way > to do it. There's no windows and dialogs to create, no GUI toolkit needed, no > platform interoperability problems for the GUI, and changes/upgrades are far > easier.
Well, that's nice, but for the average user, they can't or dont want to install a web server on their machine. That's what I was trying to get away from. This is a personal type application, not something you want someone else accessing. I have an intranet site, I can do this, but I also know a little about firewalls and how to keep the outside from coming in =P I want the average windows user to be able to use this, as well as anyone running Linux. As it stands right now, it needs Apache, MySQL and PHP libraries. Its a lot of setup for an average user just to use this. And most of the people that would use this application are middle aged (women) running Windows. Ah, think about a Grandmother that crochet's and you have it =P > I also like Java if I don't want a web based GUI. Whatever it is I use for a I like the idea of Java, to write something that will run on several different platforms. How does it handle, say the differences in the file systems? like c:\directory and /mnt/directory? I've actually never tried Java. I'm wondering how difficult it will be to port something from PHP to Java considering I'm not an experienced programmer. -Judy -- Gossamer Axe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
