Apple Mac? (OpenInsight Specific)
At 06 FEB 2001 03:57:47AM Colin Rule wrote:
Does anyone know whether there is any mechanism for running an OI application from an Apple Mac workstation.
For example, using a Windows interpreter or something like Citrix.
TIA…
Colin Rule
At 06 FEB 2001 04:03AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
By far and away the easiest is to redo it as a Web app then just use a browser
. We don' need no steenkin' Java
.
One of our clients (Penguin Books) have used a Mac emulator to run Windows programs but we've resisted the temptation to try OI so far.
World Leaders in all things RevSoft
At 06 FEB 2001 08:52AM Oystein Reigem wrote:
Colin,
I think one of our clients run a single-user OI on a stand-alone Mac with a Windows emulator program. (It's my colleague Per who knows the details. I don't even remember who that client is. I'm just the programmer.)
- Oystein -
At 06 FEB 2001 09:29AM Donald Bakke wrote:
Colin,
Well unfortunately one our staffers is a Mac lover and uses that at home. He runs an emulator called VirtualPC. As I understand it, this is not a Windows emulator. Rather it is a processor (Index x86) emulator. One advantage of this is that Windows is truly Windows (in fact, you must license your copy of Windows with Microsoft when you install and run VirtualPC.) It also emulates PC ports (i.e. LPTx, COMx) as well.
Since Mac's use RISC processors everything runs relatively quickly. OpenInsight and AREV have both run equally well.
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 06 FEB 2001 10:34AM Colin Rule wrote:
Sprezz…
Sounds like a good idea, as a Web app, but how.
Would it run the normal app in a screen within the browser?
What about printing etc?
Dont want to change the app at all if we can help it.
Thanks
Colin
At 06 FEB 2001 11:13AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
A web app would mean converting the entire application to a browser model. All entry screens and reports would be turned into HTML/XML/Java or whatever other specification you would want.
As a web app, the application would run in the browser. This means the app should work on PCs, Macs, Unix, Linux, Comodores, Crays, cell phones, whatever there's a browser for.
Granted, this does go against your desire to not change the application.
Printing would be the responsibility of the browser, you would just have to send back code formatted as you wish.
Other items (those implied in the etc.) would depend on the tools you use to access the LH data. Some tools are better than others and the different tools available have different strengths and weaknesses.
It would be better to ask specific questions about converting the application and we can answer them in turn. As you gain more information about web apps, you will begin to think of them in new ways.
World Leaders in all things RevSoft
At 06 FEB 2001 11:53AM Colin Rule wrote:
Ah!!
Life is never as easy as we want it, shame, less time to go to the pub.
I was sort of hoping you would have suggested some application that runs a third party app within an ActiveX control on the browser.
Not to worry, there are other ways to skin a cat….
Thanks.