Hello to the PC community
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:37 am
Hello PC community.
My name is Troy and I am a web programmer. I've learned that the church plant in which I am involved has purchased PowerChurch. As a web programmer, I am interested in accessing PC data from other applications and platforms, especially Python [1]_ running on Linux. I see no need to create a second database with everyone's contact information. Can you imagine the nightmares in trying to keep the two in sync?
I note that PC is a VFP application for Windows, that others have had success using ODBC for read-only access, and that VFP has been put to rest by Microsoft [2]_. It also seems that, in the future, some parts of VFP may become open source [3]_. That's good news for all of us.
As a note to the PC development team, you may want to look into Dabo [4]_ as a possible VFP replacement. It is a desktop application framework with support for multiple platforms and databases.
God's Peace.
Troy
P.S. The strange markup is reStructuredText [5]_, a handy way of writing documentation. The URLs are butchered because of the anti-spam features in the forum.
.. [1] Python: python. org
.. [2] Microsoft Puts FoxPro Out to Pasture: eweek. com/article2/0,1895,2104204,00.asp
.. [3] A Message to the Community (from the VFP team): msdn2.microsoft. com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb308952.aspx
.. [4] Dabo Desktop Application Framework: dabodev. com/
.. [5] reStructuredText: docutils.sourceforge. net/rst.html
My name is Troy and I am a web programmer. I've learned that the church plant in which I am involved has purchased PowerChurch. As a web programmer, I am interested in accessing PC data from other applications and platforms, especially Python [1]_ running on Linux. I see no need to create a second database with everyone's contact information. Can you imagine the nightmares in trying to keep the two in sync?
I note that PC is a VFP application for Windows, that others have had success using ODBC for read-only access, and that VFP has been put to rest by Microsoft [2]_. It also seems that, in the future, some parts of VFP may become open source [3]_. That's good news for all of us.
As a note to the PC development team, you may want to look into Dabo [4]_ as a possible VFP replacement. It is a desktop application framework with support for multiple platforms and databases.
God's Peace.
Troy
P.S. The strange markup is reStructuredText [5]_, a handy way of writing documentation. The URLs are butchered because of the anti-spam features in the forum.
.. [1] Python: python. org
.. [2] Microsoft Puts FoxPro Out to Pasture: eweek. com/article2/0,1895,2104204,00.asp
.. [3] A Message to the Community (from the VFP team): msdn2.microsoft. com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb308952.aspx
.. [4] Dabo Desktop Application Framework: dabodev. com/
.. [5] reStructuredText: docutils.sourceforge. net/rst.html