On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Peter Hart

<peterhart@talktalkbusiness.net>wrote:

> I have just taken on a client as a favour for my local church.

>

Peter: It's good of you to volunteer.

> They saw some of the cheap Linux Tablets that I sell and think they could

> afford to buy some for their volunteers to use for data entry.

>

Will they be doing data entry with internet access available? If the

tablets have wireless, a web application could save you from the

difficulties of trying to shoehorn a data entry app in a language you're

less familiar with, onto a platform you may find is not all that

compatible. In addition, a web application could be accessible to

volunteers with smart phones, their own tables (just as likely iPads,

Kindles or even W-8 devices), and you could write the app in FoxPro.

I may be a bit of a Luddite myself, but I don't think the idea of writing

device-specific applications should be the first choice, unless you need to

take advantage of hardware (like a camera or GPS) not available to a more

general solution, like a web app.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, of course: you'd need to host

the web app somewhere, likely a FoxPro-friendly host for Web Connection or

another VFP solution.

--

Ted Roche

Ted Roche & Associates, LLC

http://www.tedroche.com

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