My company's thinking about making a small set of data visible to all
employees via a web site. Some employees are located at the home office, and
others are at remote locations, connecting to the home office server via a
VPN. We will all be adding items to this database throughout the day, but
nobody will be able to edit anyone else's items. We'd like it if updates
from one person were visible quickly to users at other locations, perhaps by
refreshing the web page or whatever's the best method.

The bad news is that The Boss wants to build this in-house, since the users
are OK with it looking less-than-perfect as we build it, whatever "it" is.
So, this leads to my question: Would Delphi be appropriate for this type of
thing? The network is a Windows environment, by the way.

Since you are asking on a Paradox forum, I can answer that Paradox would be
appropriate for "this type of thing".

I'd imagine that Delphi would, also.


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Tony McGuire
"It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities."
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"Tony McGuire" <png.paradoxcommunity@com> wrote

Sorry - I automatically came here because I've seen discussions touching on
Delphi a few times. Should've posted elsewhere.

Who's pretending to market Paradox nowadays? Anyone? Last time I looked,
Corel's site made no mention of it.

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:17:37 GMT, Doug Kanter wrote:

Hi Doug,

Corel recently started advertising Paradox on their site. Here's the link:
http://tinyurl.com/a9l5o

Check www.thedbcommunity.com, if you haven't already. There's a whole
section of articles on serving Paradox tables to the web.

Also while you are there, check the archives for threads discussing content
management programs -- the programs used to convert user-generated content
into mature web pages. This is no wheel you want to reinvent.

I wrote my own content management program in Paradox, but my needs are
simple. I thought -- almost certainly wrongly -- that the open source
content management systems would be so much overkill that rolling my own
would be easier. For what it's worth, I store content in Paradox tables,
edit it on Paradox forms, textstream it into web pages, and have CuteFTP
automatically upload it within a few seconds of its completion. Works fine:
www.harganonline.com . The problem I had was inline HTML, such as
<b>bold</b>. Tony posted a way of handling this a year or so ago, by
burying a web browser into a form. You can then set up the browser for
WYSIWYG rich content editing; both Explorer and Firefox support this.

Thought I'd just cover the major bases here. Sorry if I am saying stuff you
already know!


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Jim Hargan
Freelance Photographer and Writer
www.harganonline.com

"Doug Kanter" <ancientangler (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:
If you have no interest in PDX, take your question to the appropriate technology
forum. Asking for feedback and subsequently crafting criticism of that feedback
is disingenuous and disrespectful to those responders whose time is wasted.

Rick Kelly

"Jim Hargan" <contactATharganonlineDOTcom (AT) nospam (DOT) net> wrote

Thank you, Jim. Your rough outline was actually very useful.

"Rick Kelly" <somebody (AT) anybody (DOT) com> wrote

Actually, there was no criticism of the feedback. It was simply a comment on
how Paradox, as a product, has been tossed around over the years. Since you
were not personally responsible for this situation.........you know the
rest.

Doug Kanter wrote:

and this comment, coming from somebody that still runs PdoxDOS 3.5, means what?



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Jim Hargan wrote:

gimme a break.. that link just points to the "Suite 12 Professional" page,
which merely happens to say "and Paradox for relational databases".. click to
the "features and details" page and it still doesn't say a word about Paradox..

please don't give Corel credit for something they don't deserve.. because they
really *don't* deserve it..


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Diamond Software Group
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Paradox Support & Sales - Corel CTech Paradox
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Trading Cards and other Sports Memorabilia
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:06:46 -0500, Steven Green wrote:

AFAIK. Therefore, any promotion of WP-Pro as a separate product is
promotion of Paradox.

And, until recently, the website made no mention of WP-Pro. You had to call
the 800 number (which I did), and then the nice lady on the phone had to
transfer you to a supervisor who knew how much it cost ($135 upgrade --
half what they are charging now).


But Steven, do you really mean to rag on Doug Kantor for saying something
nasty about Corel, then snarl in my general direction for saying something
nice? You just come back from Christmas shopping? Come on, grab some eggnog
and relax!



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Jim Hargan
Freelance Photographer and Writer
www.harganonline.com