Hi!
I am really interested in Alpha 5 - it looks like it is an absolutely great development environment with a helpful community. I have some questions, forgive if they sound stupid, I am a total newbie:
1) I would like to develop a simple desktop application to run on a LAN with three users. These users would connect to a database (MySQL) server. As far as I understand, I would need 3 runtime licenses and the platinum development environment. Is that correct? I mean, these three clients would be able to connect to this database server (with no Alpha 5 software running on it) and there would be no need for purchasing an Alpha 5 application server, right?
2) By the way, what are the real differences between a Run Engine and Runtime licenses besides "Active-Link Tables"? I have read the information available on (broken link removed)
but I'm still confused. When are "Active-Link Tables" relevant? Why do Run Engine licenses which have this extra feature cost less than Runtime licenses which don't have it? Which should I choose for this case (it is a custom developped application and there will be probably no more than 3 concurrent users ever)? What if I wanted to make it a hybrid (desktop/web) application in the future (I would obviously need to purchase an application server license then, but how about runtime licensing)?
3) Now, my main problem is that I live in Spain and would like to be able to use a GUI in Spanish. Is there a translation of all or at least some GUI elements/controls to Spanish? Will there ever be one? If a translation does no t exist, is there a possibility of translating them with XBasic? Would that be very time-consuming? Also, does Alpha 5 have international character support? UTF-8?
Best regards,
Alex
I am really interested in Alpha 5 - it looks like it is an absolutely great development environment with a helpful community. I have some questions, forgive if they sound stupid, I am a total newbie:
1) I would like to develop a simple desktop application to run on a LAN with three users. These users would connect to a database (MySQL) server. As far as I understand, I would need 3 runtime licenses and the platinum development environment. Is that correct? I mean, these three clients would be able to connect to this database server (with no Alpha 5 software running on it) and there would be no need for purchasing an Alpha 5 application server, right?
2) By the way, what are the real differences between a Run Engine and Runtime licenses besides "Active-Link Tables"? I have read the information available on (broken link removed)
but I'm still confused. When are "Active-Link Tables" relevant? Why do Run Engine licenses which have this extra feature cost less than Runtime licenses which don't have it? Which should I choose for this case (it is a custom developped application and there will be probably no more than 3 concurrent users ever)? What if I wanted to make it a hybrid (desktop/web) application in the future (I would obviously need to purchase an application server license then, but how about runtime licensing)?
3) Now, my main problem is that I live in Spain and would like to be able to use a GUI in Spanish. Is there a translation of all or at least some GUI elements/controls to Spanish? Will there ever be one? If a translation does no t exist, is there a possibility of translating them with XBasic? Would that be very time-consuming? Also, does Alpha 5 have international character support? UTF-8?
Best regards,
Alex
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