How to Install and license ALP on your machine.
To install ALP minimal distribution in order to run applications
download this package:
ALPRedist.exe
Open it and follow the instructions. If you have some ALP version
already installed you may be asked for permission to replace some
files. You can safely accept that and press the "Yes to
All" button.
To license your machine to run any ALP application you need a
LOCAL ALP license. If you want to buy one you can do so through RegNet.
You can read the notes and the standard ALP license agreement here.
If you already have a license, go to Start menu, Programs,
newObjects, ALP and open the "ALP Viewer (ALP Frame)".
Then follow the "Register ALP" link. There is also
an "ALP Licensing" link in the same program group which
will lead you directly to the ALP registration.
Once there follow the instructions, if the machine being licensed
is connected to the Internet we recommend you use the automatic
licensing which is fast and easy.
The ALP applications vendors usually pack their applications with
ALP. On the other hand there are many cases in which the
applications are built by individuals or small companies, also there
are vendors producing a number of small applications for which it is
impractical to pack each application with ALP. In such cases you may
have been instructed to download and install the ALP redistribution
files on your machine.
ALP setup does not install or replace any system files. There
is absolutely no possibility to harm your system by installing
Active Local Pages. All the files and materials included in the ALP
install package are created by newObjects - there are no
elements in ALP with unknown or untested functionality. Therefore
ALP cannot contain any virus or malicious code.
If you prefer to download the ALP redistribution as a ZIP file
you can download ALPRedist.zip.
After the download unpack it (preserving the directory structure),
run ALPInstall.exe and follow the instructions.
How to use the ALP applications
Of course this depends on the developer's decision, but still
there are quite many common traits shared by the ALP applications.
Most often the applications will ship with a setup that will
install shortcuts to them in the start menu and you will need just
to go there and click them.
Some (mostly small) programs may be packed without setup. Such
applications would be most often archived in some kind of archive
(ZIP, RAR or a self-extracting EXE). In such case you would ned to
unpack them in an empty directory, preserving the directory
structure from the archive. As a rule the directory where the
application is unpacked would contain a file named alp.site -
it may look like this:
Open that file to start the application (double click it).
If you want to create a shortcut to such an application - create
shortcut to this file - drag it with the right mouse button and drop
it in the location where you want to create shortcut (for example on
the desktop). Then choose create shortcut.
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Contract ALP development
If you are company or organization that needs a specific
application to be developed for you - you can contract a development
with our partners or with us.
You can review the list of the developers offering ALP
development on this page.
Why contract ALP application development?
newObjects Active Local Pages offers simple yet powerful
application development opportunities. The ALP development almost
always costs less then the same project built using another
programming tools and techniques. With no additional efforts the
application can be designed to work locally on ALP and on a WEB
server (Microsoft IIS). Therefore if you need this you can get an
application that can be used on stand-alone machines and on shared
server without added costs!
The ALP applications run on all the desktop Windows platforms and
you will not need to be concerned about the compatibility with old
machines or compatibility with future Windows versions. Any Windows
machine with a CPU on 150MHz or more and 32 MB ram and more will be
suitable for a common ALP application.
The licensing costs are low and fully predictable. If you have
small number of machines, buying ALP LOCAL licenses for them in one
turn will give you substantial discount. For example licensing the
machines to run any ALP application will cost:
1 machine - $15
5 machines - $60
10 machines - $100
20 machines - $160
50 machines - $350
Note that the ALP LOCAL license gives you permission to use ALP
with any ALP application. Thus any consequent ALP application
developed for the same machines will not add any additional ALP
licensing costs.
If you have much greater number of machines you can buy a
DEVELOPER license which costs $320 and instruct the developer who
builds your project(s) to import it into the application(s). This
will allow you use all the ALP projects built for you for a one-time
price of $320 on any number of machines.
The DEVELOPER license also gives you permission to distribute ALP
based applications - you can sell, license them to other consumers
with no added or hidden costs with the ALP engine bundled in the
retail product.
What kind of applications can be built using ALP?
First of all consider the fact that when an organization starts a
software project it may serve two different purposes:
A new application that performs tasks you need on its own only.
An application that integrates with another software you
already use.
ALP can be used in the both cases. ALP applications can
integrate/interoperate with virtually all the COM enabled software
products which gives unlimited opportunities for integration and
interoperation. If you see in ALP an opportunity to implement some
tasks that are part of a greater software infrastructure this is
possible virtually always and will most likely require less efforts
from the developers than another solution.
From the technical point of view ALP is best suited for any
scenario where form-based applications are employed. Even if the
expected application functionality goes further - need of background
asynchronous processing, network connectivity - the ALP applications
will be able to cope with this easily. Therefore some of the areas
where ALP will be the best choice are:
- Accounting applications
- Resource management
- Information and infrastructure management
- Presentations for clients
- Tools for distributors, resellers and other associates.
- Various system and business utilities
- Tear-off applications - i.e. tools able to work both in your
IT infrastructure and stand-alone - with possible
synchronization/actualization.
- Special solutions for small and/or remote offices.
- Expert systems
- Education tools and products
- References, catalogs and other active tools your employees may
need to use even when they are not connected to your
organization's network.
Adding the ability to run the same application stand-alone and on
IIS in many cases you may have the same software serving in the
developed network of the big offices/headquarters and separate
machines or small offices. This gives a special opportunity - to
plan a project that will remove the requirement for dedicated
connection between your offices and thus lower the connectivity
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