Greg Gum writes:

> So are there any other (non-legal) issues for Fox on Linux?

Yes.

+ No HTML Help=20

+ No ActiveX (with various repurcussions in the IDE: class browser won't=20

load, for one)

+ Printing is difficult to set up

+ various vfp popup windows will cycle the main window to the back while=20

showing the popup. Workaround is to set the window to AlwaysOnTop

+ Windows fonts will be substituted with the available X11 fonts (not a=20

problem but it could be annoying)

+ No copy/paste of objects from within the form/class designer

+ SQLSTRINGCONNECT() will always result in a Stack Overflow (VFP error).=20

SQLCONNECT() will work. This means that you must set up and use DSN's=20

instead of passing the connect string manually.

=2E..and possibly other items that I haven't come across yet. I'm running=

my=20

personal TimeTracker application, built in VFP8, on my Linux box without=20

Windows. Except for printing, it runs as well on Linux as it does on=20

Windows. I'm also developing with VFP7 and VFP8 from the IDE on Linux.

Along with the problems I mention above, there's also issues with=20

deployment. Wine being alpha software is not easy to install. Once Wine i=

s=20

installed, however, its a simple matter to copy over your EXE along with=20

the VFP8 runtimes (vfp8r.dll, vfp8renu.dll, and msvcr70.dll).

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Paul McNett