Section 5.4, 'Designing Portable Displays'ĭiscusses developing a display for maximum portability. Section 5.3, 'Designing Portable Reports'ĭiscusses developing a report for maximum portability. Also discusses an approach for cross-platform development, as well as considerations unique to the character-mode environment. Presents some high-level questions you should answer before developing a portable application.Īddresses issues of portability with respect to the GUI and the operating system.

This chapter helps you anticipate the issues you will face when developing portable applications and provides suggestions for ensuring that you can move your application across platforms with ease With careful pre-development planning, you can create a single application that satisfies users across environments, providing each with the native look and feel they expect. Both Forms Developer and Reports Developer automatically translate the standard control objects (buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, and so on) to the appropriate format for your target platforms. With both Forms Developer and Reports Developer, deploying a single application on multiple platforms-Windows, Motif, the Web, even character-mode-is simply a matter of re-compiling.

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