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[Mark Hannessen]

> I know I sound like a broken record, but just so it's out there:
> Visual Foxpro 5 and 6 IDE's DO run under Wine, BUT, left mouse clicks in
> child windows are broken.  I've compiled and run VFP apps under wine,
> but it's a pain in the butt to go kybd only in a Visual IDE :P

are you volontairing ?
> Sorry not to answer your main questions, but some ideas on this ...
> We use gcc, wxWindows and mingw. Not sure how much you _need_ .NET
> but we migrated our (fairly complex) app from Visual C++/MFC to wxWindows
> and it was definitely worth it. Also we can use gcc to cross-compile 
> from Linux for Windows, so basically although our software is currently used 
> exclusively on Windows, I can develop it all on Linux (obviously some 
> testing to be done on Windows as well, but basically it works). And it's all 
> free, open-source software. I'd recommend checking it out.

this combined with mono might give you just enough to develop .NET
progs under linux.

Mark Hannessen

[Rick Romero]

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 12:02, Mark Hannessen wrote:
> > I know I sound like a broken record, but just so it's out there:
> > Visual Foxpro 5 and 6 IDE's DO run under Wine, BUT, left mouse clicks in
> > child windows are broken.  I've compiled and run VFP apps under wine,
> > but it's a pain in the butt to go kybd only in a Visual IDE :P
>
> are you volontairing ?

To make it work?  The issue is listed under bug #434, and is WAY beyond
me.  I would LOVE to be able to make it work (1/2 my desktop apps are
VFP), but the issue is WAY beyond my understanding.  I spent 3 days
finding the regression, and at least 2 weeks trying to figure out what
the issue is.   I even went to a crash C++ class in leiu of Java in
hopes of gaining some insight into how this all worked.. 

Nope, haven't been able to move on that issue at all :(

So far, I think it's only limited to VFP, and with there being VERY
limited feedback regarding VFP apps, I think this issue will die with
VFP.  It's possible it doesn't even exist in VFP 7 (.Net IIRC) apps, but
I can't test that.

On my end, my commercial VFP desktop applications now have Linux
alternatives (ACCPAC Pro and Advantage Series), that I have to take a
look at anyways.  We're outgrowing VFP table sizes.  My custom apps are
cheezy, and just need to be recreated in something more robust.  I think
that's what's happening to VFP as a whole. 


Rick



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