Just took delivery of our first Windows 8 HP tablet (Full windows 8 not RT) and a few initial observations after half an hour of setting up and installing our main in house VFP app:
1. Great build quality, definitely in the iPad class 2. No problem installing VFP9 SP2 3. Connectability and USB options - much better than iPad... i.e you can connect USB devices! 4. Windows 8 is usable on a tablet... a little quirky perhaps but swipe actions fall quite naturally 5. On Screen keyboard is quirky at times and sometimes completely hides the field you are trying to enter data into which is annoying and somewhat confusing should you actually undock the keyboard and use it as a floating keyboard. Sometimes when the field to be entered is in the bottom half of the screen, the keyboard pushes it up and sometimes it doesn't.... it just isn't consistent. 6. VFP Standard top line menu's are completely unworkable just using finger clicks. You have to be so, so precise that you'd have pulled your hair out trying to select a File/Exit option!! Definitely need a mouse or touchpad or the patience of Job! So it looks like a completely new Menu system needs to be used to get rid of VFP top line menus (sigh)... I guess that I shall revive the tile menu I started and never completed last year but this alone will mean lots of work changing the basic app unless I am missing something fairly fundamental about selecting top line menu items. 7. Speed is acceptable if not blindingly fast ...More to follow Dave _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
