Chris,
Last spring I tried the free XOJO download. Of course I found it to be
different from the VFP development platform, but I was able to create a
working 'server monitor' in about 3 hours (of reading, writing code
snippets, researching how-to) that I still use several times a week. The
app connects to the MariaDB server of my choice (by IP,) displays all
connections and their status, updating every 3 to 5 seconds. I could
have knocked it together in VFP in about 1/4 of the time or less, but
only due to my familiarity with VFP.
While researching I found the XOJO community of users to be robust and
active on the support boards, with lots of reasonably helpful support
from other users. There do seem to be, as always, a few curmudgeons who
are more interested in pointing out how stupid your newbie Q is than
offering help, but...what else is new.
I have not paid for XOJO yet because of my one sticking point: no
Andriod platform support for XOJO, so far.
XOJO reps say it will happen and I have been vocal in my requests. They
have mentioned, and I agree with their assessment, that Andriod has
become pretty splintered with so many active versions to support. But, I
have a genetic aversion to iOS and my next step has to have Android.
Can't speak to the touch-screen use, but I suspect that is more of an OS
issue than the development platform. As long as the OS provides the
input from the screen, I'd be surprised if your app couldn't detect and
use it. Even VFP detects touch as a mouse click.
About the only other platforms I'm still considering would be Java and
Python, just based on where the herd is going.
Mike
Chris Davis wrote:
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.
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