[AccessD] Running A Stand Alone On A MAC

>From memory (and it has been a long time since I used a Mac regularly - indeed, my Mac days were pre Steve Jobs 2nd coming when Macs used to really suck) you can use the "Apple" key as a substitute control key, or at least that is how it used to be.

Perhaps that has all changed now...



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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Friday, 22 June 2012 1:45 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Running A Stand Alone On A MAC

My app is an Access Fe written in Access 2003 (along with my frameworks).  The BE is SQL Server running in my office.  The FE runs on a MAC in my colleague's office.  His Mac runs a VM inside of which runs Windows 7.  The FE runs under Access 2007 runtime.  The FE accesses the data over the internet using Hamachi as a VPN, IOW he runs Hamachi on his system and I run it on my server, and Hamachi forms a tunnel over the internet.

You mentioned your client running Access under Windows 7 under Parallels on a Mac.  I am telling you that we are doing that.

Transparent it is, kinda, within the framework of "it's running on a Mac".  Just as an example a Mac 
apparently doesn't have a control key.   Hmmm... We Windows folks use the control key for shortcuts 
and stuff.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it


On 6/21/2012 10:42 PM, Tony Septav wrote:
> Hey John
> Haven't got a clue what you are talking about.
>
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Running A Stand Alone On A MAC
>
> This is a smallish runtime FE hitting a SQL Server BE over the web.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
>
> On 6/21/2012 3:45 PM, John Bartow wrote:
>> 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
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> 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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