Ed, thanks for that. I was thinking that I would have to program in the ability to do below. We've got it working very simply, the Eva Webserver maintains session state I think, but we put enough information into the links to get back to where you were if I've you've gone to make a cup of tea and a sandwich since getting the web page.
The webserver was embedded into the app, and it called routines in the app to pull out strings which are web pages. It was simple and it worked for us. But I guess for large scale you need to be running inside apache/iis. Another thing I did was to have a web page that is an ASP page, which calls a COM object (VFP7 EXE) and that dishes up a web page or part of the data for a web page. My mind is a muddle at the moment! Robert -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Posted At: 19 April 2007 20:20 Posted To: Profox Archive Conversation: [NF] NTBACKUP ERROR WIN 2003 SBS Subject: Re: [NF] NTBACKUP ERROR WIN 2003 SBS On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Robert Jennings wrote: > Wouldn't you be able to include web functionality whilst providing a > desktop app? > > I've managed to get a webserver running in my app to serve out pages > to users with browsers. > > Using the tiered approach, would it not be possible to pass data from > the Business Object out to a user interface tier which spits out html > which would be the User Interface tier in a browser? This would be in > addition to the normal "Desktop User interface" giving customers two > ways to get to their data. Sure, it would be possible, but it's not anything that we plan on doing anytime in the foreseeable future. Besides the UI changes that would be required, you would also have to implement sessioning and the related bizobj management, since a desktop app maintains a single state, whereas a web app is stateless. It can certainly be done, but it would take some serious work and testing to make something that would scale. -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://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.
