Jargon Reader Handheld Demo - Download

Run a Jargon Reader Handheld Demo on your desktop PC, using our PDA Emulation software, which looks and acts like a PocketPC device (HP iPAQ, Dell Axim, etc.)

See applications perform real time database access over the Internet from a (simulated) wireless PDA to a remote web server (www.jargonsoft.com).

The Jargon Reader Deployment Engine for Pocket PC handhelds works online or offline with Progress, Oracle, or SQL Server host databases.

To run the Jargon Reader Handheld Demo on your Windows desktop:

1. Download a small (272KB) zip file from http://www.jargonsoft.com/demos/JargonReaderPDADemo.zip .
   This zip file contains a "JargonDemo" folder with 3 files:
   • the Jargon Reader emulation executable (ReaderPDA.exe)
   • a startup XML file (ApplicationMenu.xml)
   • an image file (logo.gif)
   Save the zip file into a folder such as "C:\Temp".
2. Extract the zip file contents into the same folder as in step 1.
   Be sure that the unzip utility you use is configured to create subdirectories as needed.
   • In WinZip make sure "Use Folder Names" is checked.
   • In PKUnZip a "Create Directories" configuration setting is used.
   • Other zip utilities have similar options.
   If extracted correctly, the unzipped files will consist of the "ReaderPDA.exe", "ApplicationMenu.xml" and "logo.gif" files in a "JargonDemo" folder. For example, if you extracted the zip file into "C:\Temp", the full path of the ReaderPDA.exe file will be "C:\Temp\JargonDemo\ReaderPDA.exe", and similarly for the other 2 files.
3. To start an Emulator session, simply open the JargonDemo folder in Windows Explorer and double-click on ReaderPDA.exe.
4. If you want a desktop shortcut for the demo, right-click on ReaderPDA.exe in Windows Explorer and drag it to your desktop, then select "Create Shortcut(s) Here".
   
   Then right-click the new icon on your desktop and select "Properties". Make sure the "Start In" folder is the same as the folder that contains the ReaderPDA.exe file in the "Target" field.
   
   If the "Start In" is blank, copy and paste the folder from the Target field. If you do not, the demo will still run, but you will get a "cache" folder and a "cookies.txt" icon on your desktop when you run the demo, and you won't see our wonderful logo!
5. The demo will start with a "PDA Demo Login" screen showing a Jargon Software logo at the top, if it is installed correctly. If you do not see this screen, make sure you are running the exe file from within the folder that contains the xml and gif files.
6. If checked, the "Use SSL" checkbox will encrypt requests and responses from the demo software to our www.jargonsoft.com web server, using 128-bit SSL encryption over the Internet. The Login and Password fields are hard-coded for this demo, so you cannot change them.
7. Click "Login" to begin the demo. This will bring up the "PDA Demo Menu". Click on any of the buttons to run one of the demo applications (see step 10 for notes on running each demo). Clicking Exit will return you to the PDA Demo Login screen.
8. To end a demo session, click on the "File" menubar choice at the very bottom of the screen, then select "Exit" from the popup menu.
9. Note: ReaderPDA.exe uses a "cache" sub-folder within the folder from which it is run. This folder contains an "ApplicationMenu.dom" file which holds the latest state of the application login screen. Each cached application that is run will also create its own ".dom" file here.
   
   When run again, the Emulator retains the apps that have been loaded and run in a previous session, using the information in these cached app files.
   
   To clear the cached apps, simply click "Reset" on the PDA Demo Login screen. (The magic word is "dba"). The confirmation screen is to prevent accidents and help ensure that users know what they are doing.
10. The following links provide tips on how to run some of the demos.
    • Customers: Customer Inquiry with Customer Sales Order and Order Line Item drilldowns, plus a Customer Update feature.
      
      
    • Products: Product Search with Quantity Details and Bin Locations, including thumbnail images of some products.
      
      
    • Sales Calls: Customer Sales Calls that works both online and offline, using Jargon Reader's easy-to-use "Store and Forward" capability.
      
      
    • Multiple Hosts: A simple "Executive Dashboard" that accesses multiple hosts and multiple databases to provide a consolidated view of customer A/R status across three divisions that have separate enterprise database applications.
      
      
    • Warehouse: Warehouse inventory transaction posting that works both online and offline, using Jargon Reader's easy-to-use "Store and Forward" capability.
      
      
    • DB Admin: A Progress database utility that not only allows viewing of table and field definitions from the metaschema, it also lets you view and update the information in any record in any table.