Hello Richard, There is not a simple answer for that email. Porting a desktop application to the web is never easy. What I can say straight forward to you is that you'll be able to gather data from the same stacks or databases that your desktop application uses but you'll need to build a new presentation layer for we can't display stacks on the web.
RevHTTP is your friend while development occurs. It's a simple web server that you can run inside the IDE so you can use the debugger while building your cgi. It beats doing it raw on apache. I distribute a package called RevOnRockets http://www.andregarzia.com/RevOnRockets that is able to help you, it has CGI libraries (including libCGI) bundled and examples, it's a nice educational package. I use it all the time on real world cases. My advise to you is, first split your source into modules that you can reuse. Create a stack library that has all the needed functionality of your application but doesn't deal with the presentation layer. For example, create a library for querying and searching your encyclopedia, for picking the specific data about a given wood and the like. When you have this part done, it will be far easier to wrap it around a CGI or a Desktop App or whichever you want. Cheers andre -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
