RE: [school-discuss] District DNA Getting Started Guide

["James Smyth" <smyth@northeast.tec.ma.us>]

Everything is available on source forge. 

http://Sourceforge.net/projects/districtdna

Please see the news section on my web site www.districtdna.com for a
list of components used. I use components from 5 or six companies and I
have not checked as to what components are available for Linux.

James P. Smyth
Technology Coordinator
Northeast Metropolitan School District


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
[mailto:owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net] On Behalf Of Doug
Loss
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:36 PM
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] District DNA Getting Started Guide

James Smyth wrote:
> My software the client side runs on win32 platforms at this time.
There
> is a version of Delphi that run on Linux called Kylex, but I have not
> tried it and I doubt that all the components that I use would work
under
> Linux. One for sure is the spelling checker. For spell checking I
> basically call MS Word. The software will run without MS Word but you
> will not be able to spell check. This mainly affects IEPs (Individual
> Education Plans) where there is a lot of free hand text.

Is the client source available?  Spellchecking in Linux is no big deal; 
I'm sure someone can get that working.  It would be worth trying your 
client out in Kylix and seeing just what bits need tweaking.  I'm sure 
we can find someone to work on that with you if you like.

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