Chris, Xojo is an excellent choice and it has become very stable after the transition from Real Basic which gave a few problems as they changed the framework they worked on completely to fit in with Apples development. The basic system is, as you are no doubt aware, free but you can't generate applications or do the advanced things with it. However it certainly will give you a feel for the development environment. I have done a number of personal projects outside work on multi platform and have found it robust and reliable.
The addons available (MonkeyBread Software) really extend the library of functions used and are a must for any application development. Mr Kevin Cully is another profoxer who has done a lot with Xojo. Other than that, people on here will know that I am a big fan of B4A (Basic for Android) which is a killer development system for any Android software. The Aplle (iphone/iPad) dev system is completely free as is the J4A Java dev system and support is excellent. Microsoft C# in Visual Studio is my preferred system to develop on these days and once again the personal (non app generate) system id free. Mate it with SQL Express and there isn't much you can't do. You do have to ask yourself though, what can't you do in VFP first. Of course there is always Python and the Dabo framework by Ed Leafe and Paul McNett on here which is very good indeed if you like to dabble in multi platform development. VFP will remain my fave though .... and will take me up to retirement no problem! Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Davis Sent: 14 October 2015 15:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Moving on from VFP We have recently been casting an eye over Xojo, and I literally mean just casting an eye over it. If we are at the point where we are very interested in recreating one of our smaller VFP applications using another tool what other obvious options are out there before we start the experiment. Our thoughts so far are ... We do want to product applications on other platforms, but this is more likely to be IOS and Android than it is Linux or OSX. We do want to produce applications which work better with touch screens, i.e. swish and swosh and swipe or whatever the buzz words are. We do want to move to either MSSQL or an open source like MySQL as a database backend even if it's running on the same machine as our application. This is more for security and remote connectivity than performance. We would like the move to be as painless as possible, but are happy to spend time learning new syntax. We would like projects to be Source Control friendly. We would like to think we could compile a 64bit application but we are not sure why. Xojo seems to tick all of these boxes now or in the near future or at least it does when you've paid for it, is there any other options we should consider? Thanks Chris. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
