[AccessD] Running A Stand Alone On A MAC

Hi Tony,

You mileage may vary here, but it might be worth a try. You could try running it under Wine. Wine support is pretty incredible these days and it will run a lot of Windows apps natively, rather than through a virtual machine, which is inherently slower and more resource intensive.

There are some nice frontend interfaces that make setting up and configuring applications to run through Wine quite easily.

One such example is WineBottler. I think this might be the best one for you, as the other one, Wineskin, is geared more towards games (although it should still work just as well).

As mentioned, all you do is point WineBottler to your executables and it opens the application as it would on a Windows computer. Then you can create an application link to make launching it simple in the future.

Wine supports Photoshop and MS Office, so that should tell you something about how good/complete it is, but there's always the off chance that your app is calling some mystical Windows Api that hasn't been ported yet. But worth a try in my opinion, since it is so easy to set up and give it a spin.

- Hans

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On 2012-06-21, at 4:10 PM, "Tony Septav" <TSeptav at uniserve.com> wrote:

> Hey John
> The app is a runtime, and no not a networked backend, back end goes on the
> user machine (but if necessary the backend could be on a network). Just a
> simple straight forward install.
> 
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Running A Stand Alone On A MAC
> 
> Are these access apps runtimes, per chance, frontend apps with a networked
> backend db?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Running A Stand Alone On A MAC
> 
> I have a client that does this.  He runs Windows 7 in a virtual machine
> (parallels) and I do a runtime in that.  It works fine.
> 
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> 
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
> 
> 
> On 6/21/2012 1:54 PM, Tony Septav wrote:
>> Hey All
>> This is all new to me. I have a client who has switched from being a 
>> PC user to a MAC user. He is thinking of installing an ACCESS 
>> application I designed for him (for the PC) on his MAC machine. He is 
>> using a program called Parallels to allow him to run Windows on the 
>> MAC.  I guess what I am asking is does anyone know of any problems (if
>> any) in trying to this or should it be just simply transparent?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> T. Septav
>> MicroCoast Solutions
>> Nanaimo, BC
>> Canada
>> 
> 
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