How about MS Access? You could then FTP the file to a server where you could
use a linked table to access the email addresses, etc..

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Tyrone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 10:04 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: desktop application
>
> How about PHP?  Blasphemy, yes, but a simple solution.  It
> doesn't sound
> like you need some fancy, glorified interface to collect
> email addresses.
> Then you get to dabble in something different (if you haven't used it
> already) and charge for it to boot!
>
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 2:58 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: SOT: desktop application
>
> I have a question about what the best practice would be for creating a
> desktop application.  I do websites for some different bands, and they
> all have an e-mail sign-up on their website.  Most of them also have
> some kind of a paper sign-up at concerts for people to sign up for the
> email list.  I was considering building an app that would run on a
> desktop to allow people at concerts to enter their email address and
> write it to a text or xml file that could then be uploaded to the
> webserver and parsed into the database.
>
> My question is what would be the best method to do this?  I
> was thinking
> of doing the front end in Flash but I'm not sure how to write
> to a file
> from there.  In theory, this app would need to work on a mac and a pc.
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> John Burns
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