Author: Profox
Posted: 2012-11-07 at 09:42:14
Sorry forgot to mention that at least half of the time they would not be
able to connect to the internet.
Peter
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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche
Sent: 07 November 2012 15:21
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Writing a program for Linux Tablets.
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.
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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
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