Access and Apples

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Mark

I've got a substantial amount of time invested in my desktop application
which I share with others, but next time I buy a computer I want an
Apple. Office X for Apple doesn't have Access, is there any work
around? If I decided to go all out and use FilePro and make a stand
alone app is there any conversion program for both the front end and
back end?? Especially my forms and reports which have taken alot of
time to code.

TIA,
mark
 
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Albert D. Kallal

There is no version of ms-access for apple computers right now

You can certainly use remote desktop (thin client) to use ms-access, or
install the whole thing of windows in a emulator on the Mac side.

However, all you code and programming you done in ms-access is going to be
difference then other products (they all suffer from this problem of being
in-compatible...but at least ms-access is the most widely used).


So, your forms, and code and designs will have to be re-done
 
J

John Vinson

is there any conversion program for both the front end and
back end?? Especially my forms and reports which have taken alot of
time to code.
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No, unfortunately! FileMaker and Access have utterly and completely
different design paradigms; and Access is not (and probably will not,
given the history) be available on Macs.
 
M

Mike Painter

Mark said:
I've got a substantial amount of time invested in my desktop
application which I share with others, but next time I buy a computer
I want an Apple. Office X for Apple doesn't have Access, is there
any work around? If I decided to go all out and use FilePro and make
a stand alone app is there any conversion program for both the front
end and back end?? Especially my forms and reports which have taken
alot of time to code.
Click to expand...
You can run a simulator and use Access.

There are no converters unless someone in the Mac world has written one. I
would doubt it. Databases are a*very* small portion of the Mac world and
that is a very small world.

If your forms and reports take a lot of code then you have a *MASSIVE*
amount of work ahead of you and you will have to rewrite everything. FM is
procedural rather than event driven, has a very limited language when
compared to VB and is missing a ton of things when it comes to a query
language. You may have to write code for things built into Access.
It is not a relational database but, as the name states, a file manager that
allows you to link files.

It does have a few nice features such as a button that allows resizing forms
and neat ways to show what are listboxes. It uses the results of these
boxes automatically in queries and has several wildcard options for use in
searches. (Not GREP like but similar to what DOS had.)
 
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