[AccessD] Running A Stand Alone On A MAC

Yea maybe.  All I know is I am telling Mike to hit control-C and he is hunting for the ctl key...

 > Transparent it is, kinda, within the framework of "it's running on a Mac".

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

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On 6/22/2012 12:12 AM, Darryl Collins wrote:
>>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.
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> Perhaps that has all changed now...
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> 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.
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> You mentioned your client running Access under Windows 7 under Parallels on a Mac.  I am telling you that we are doing that.
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> 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.
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> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
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> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
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> 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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>> This is a smallish runtime FE hitting a SQL Server BE over the web.
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>> John W. Colby
>> Colby Consulting
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>> Reality is what refuses to go away
>> when you do not believe in it
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>> On 6/21/2012 3:45 PM, John Bartow wrote:
>>> Are these access apps runtimes, per chance, frontend apps with a
>>> networked backend db?
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>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:36 PM
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>>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Running A Stand Alone On A MAC
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>>> 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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