OpenQM or MaVerick seem to be the only options for freely distributing a pick 
basic runtime.  MaVerick may be interesting, in that it cross compiles pick 
basic to java.  Robert Calhoun (?) has an antlr parser for basic.

http://www.maverick-dbms.org/doc/install.html
http://www.maverick-dbms.org/status/BASICParser.html

I wonder about the pick basic part though - why not something open?  SQLite, 
HSQL, couchDB?  One of the NoSQL databases that have a local web server 
interface included seems like a better option.  Do you have a lot of legacy 
code to deal with?

http://couchdb.apache.org/ + jQuery = http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jqcouch 
seems like a "modern" approach.  Post-modern, or bleeding edge even :-)

Ian

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 2:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [U2] Embedded program for Windows

I have a new client who after talking to in-depth, actually wants something  
completely different from what I first thought! Isn't that typical?
 
At any rate, I'm interested in a system, in which I can write in Pick BASIC, 
and yet will throw up all it's results in a browser but everything will be 
offline.
 
I can do the Basic, I can do the browser, what I need to ensure is that the  
Pick BASIC client is minimal, and either downloadable without licensing or  
registration, with a standard Windows download type look, bug free, OR actually 
 compiled.
 
That is, the customers, will use it entirely offline, but it must be as modern 
looking as possible, no special interfaces, just the browser.  The browser MUST 
talk to the embedded database invisibly to the customer.  The program, the 
database will all be downloaded as one "program".
 
Does that make any sense?  Who offers that?  And I need to ensure  that there 
will be only a client cost, since the embedded program (in which you cannot 
change the code) will be given away for free to the customers.
 
Will Johnson
Fast Forward Technologies
 
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