Desparately seeking someone who has 'been there, seen it, done it' !
I am planning an application which will need to run on both the PC and Mac.
The project is a fairly simple database program with some modem comms. I have
several years experience on the PC programming in dBase, Clipper, Paradox,
Pascal, C and C++ but have never even switched a Mac on!
I'm looking for a way of saving coding effort by using an environment which is
reasonably common to both systems – The database must be the same for both
systems i.e. the files will be transmitted to both PCs and Macs by modem.
Having settled on the language, I would then probably hire a Mac programmer to
do the coding.
Any advice or interest would be greatly appreciated…
Dirk
FoxBase from MicroSoft might be a good bet for the DataBase. Runs on both, uses
DBase files, etc. Only $99 on the mac if you get it now.
Serial Communications on Mac and PC are wildly different. Mac has a standard
serial driver which hides the hardware. There are some pretty good libraries
for the PC, but none I know of match the mac.
Dave Overton