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application platform advice

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:27 pm
by Luke
I would like to build an application for managing youth wrestling tournaments (I'm a coach). The problem is that none of these tournaments will have an internet connection. Ideally, it would be as simple as putting it on a flash drive, plugging it into a laptop, and you're up and running. I'm just not sure what would be the best platform for this. It will need to be very polished and professional-looking, and at the same time, as un-intimidating as possible. The people who will be using the program will likely be parents. We can safely assume the users will be completely computer-challenged.

Would Adobe AIR be a good solution here? I know there are GUI toolkits for python and other languages. but I've never used one. Thanks for your insight guys. :D

Re: application platform advice

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:54 am
by mickeyunderscore
Personally, I'd use Java. Unfortunately I can't comment on Adobe AIR, as I've never used it before.

Re: application platform advice

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:23 pm
by kaszu
I would use AIR. Only problem is that it requires AIR to be installed on the PC and since AIR is not very popular yet, you will need to carry install files in flash also and install on each new PC.
Why I would do it in AIR:
* everything can be done in HTML/CSS/Javascript (it's easier than JAVA; many javascript libraries work well)
* built in database
* it will be faster to create an app in Air than in Java (at least for me)
* online/offline states to update server when connected (if there will be one)