Window CE

[Keepontrying]

Can I run a small application written in foxpro for a pocket CE ?

 

[craigber]

No. VFP is not supported on the Pocket PC. You can use .NET technologies.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com

Author, CrysDev: A Developer's Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports"

 

[wgcs]

There are, however, standard API functions available in windows that are relatively easy to use from VFP (running on a Windows 9x/me/2k/XP computer) to communicate with a WindowsCE computer (transfer files, databases, etc)

 

[Mike Lewis]

But you certainly could write FoxPro applications for a tablet PC. It's not the same as a Win CE machine (heavier and more expensive), but it might be an option to consider.

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk

 

[DSummZZZ]

Somewhere I read about a DOS emulator that runs on Windows CE. Sorry, I forget the details but you can peruse the net a little and find it. Anyway, it supposedly could run a Fox DOS app but for anything more than that, you're out of luck.


-Dave S.-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[wgcs]

I'll second that: There are a couple of DOS emulators, and they work really well: PocketDOS is one, I can't remember the other.

http://www.pocketdos.com/

It runs in a demo mode, where it pauses 30 seconds as its loading, so you can see what its doing.

If you think about it, the 16MB RAM and 300MHz+ processors that are common on WinCE are MORE THAN ENOUGH to run a DOS emulator, and have power left over for the DOS programs to run fast enough, since it was typical to run Foxpro DOS on, say, a 32MHz 386 with 8MB RAM.

(of course, WinCE units are never x86 architecture, so MHz don't translate directly, but it gives a general comparison that we're talking an entire order-of-magnitude (or two) faster machines in WinCE now.)

 

[white605]

I just used visualCE from Syware. To import data to it I had to copy my dbf to a file TYPE foxplus and then choose DBASE as the file type to import{download} into the pocketpc. The visual tools for forms are straitfoward and eazy to use as long as all you want is acess to your data IE: first-last-next-prev-search-quit
I downloaded and tried a dbf with 2800 records and it was pretty snappy on a Samsung I700 running CE 3.0.1
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