Donor Manager Software

The screenshots didn't work in Netscape 7.1 when I clicked on them. Is the program adapted to the Netscape email client, and to others besides MIE? And I see a question on the Mac, so how about Linux? I may be migrating later this year away from Windows.

I took a peek and liked what I saw. Will be downloading soon. Came in from the notice in today's Brigada Today. Thanks for your great work on this.

since it's written in visual foxpro, i highly doubt that it will run natively in linux... although, you could probably wrangle some usability with WINE (www.winehq.com).

of course, you could always run a virtualized windoze pc in linux via vmware (www.vmware.com) or via vpc on a mac (www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx)

re: screenshots and Netscape
For some reason, the screen shots section of the website doesn't like anything except IE. It's more a function of FrontPage (which writes the javascript for the screen shots section of the site) than a FoxPro issue.

I also noticed that the screen shots section of the website doesn't work under Mozilla either.

re: Linux
On the question of running the Donor Manager under Linux, there was a discussion on one of the Foxpro discussion boards recently about how to do just that. I don't recall the details ... I'll have to go back and see if I can find that thread.

But the gist of it was that it can be done. Years ago there was a Unix version of FoxPro, but that was a looong time ago!

The Donor Manager does run very nicely on a Mac using virtualpc according to my Mac users.

Here's a link to info on running Visual Foxpro applications under Linux using WINE:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&l ... 26rnum%3D1

If anyone gets this to run, please post your experience here.

John, I have a few computers running linux and would be interested in giving this a shot.

Dan

Here's another link I ran into on the WineHQ website about running Visual Foxpro apps on Lixux via WINE:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=296

This page has Visual FoxPro 6.0 specific informationan:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?app ... 6514401252

And here is another article titled "Running Visual FoxPro in Linux" from FoxTalk magazine.

http://www.paulmcnett.com/vfp/wine/VFPo ... talk1.html

Any chance that the update to FoxFire 9 will run under linux? Or do you think that Microsoft is deliberately moving away from enabling this package to run under linux?

I'm really enjoying for FireFox web browser and learning to use the Thunderbird e-mail client.

Yea! Open Source.

Dan

Any chance that the update to FoxFire 9 will run under linux? Or do you think that Microsoft is deliberately moving away from enabling this package to run under linux?

I'm really enjoying for FireFox web browser and learning to use the Thunderbird e-mail client.

Yea! Open Source.

Dan

Any chance that the update to FoxFire 9 will run under linux? Or do you think that Microsoft is deliberately moving away from enabling this package to run under linux?

I'm really enjoying for FireFox web browser and learning to use the Thunderbird e-mail client.

Yea! Open Source.

Dan

Any chance that the update to FoxFire 9 will run under linux? Or do you think that Microsoft is deliberately moving away from enabling this package to run under linux?

I'm really enjoying for FireFox web browser and learning to use the Thunderbird e-mail client.

Yea! Open Source.

Dan

I don't know if it will run under Linux or not. M$, of course, doesn't encourage it. In fact, the license technically says you can't run it under a non M$ operating system, but I've read some articles that say that that restriction actually isn't valid or enforceable.

FireFox is a great browser. I love browsing with tabs. Right now, IE is definately in second place.

Just in case people are still looking at using Donor Manager on linux, it does work with wine.

The installer only seems to work if you set wine to use win95 or winME. But once it is installed it seems to work under the winXP setting too.

I initially tried it with wine-20050830 and was able to install it, but it gives error messages when it is loading the database files at startup.

I then tried wine-20050310 and it seems to work great. So far I have not seen any problems or functionality that does not work. But I am new to the program so I am not doing anything very advanced yet.

It was easy to install and run DM with Crossover Office on linux.

I'm now running Donor Manager via WINE on Ubuntu Linux 8.04. It just seems to install and run.

There are minor issues with fonts and the size of text in the various windows, but it's generally good.

Dan Zachary

One of my colleagues wrote this:

"Rumour has it that the newer version will stop running under Linux, because FoxPro 9 doesn't work under Wine."


I note that the discussion here is 5 years old, so I just want to confirm it before responding to him.