Designing baserunner applications is best done locally. While the baserunner FoxPro executable is slightly larger than the dBase executable, the FoxPro format memo and index files tend to be smaller, so in most cases the FoxPro version will use less memory and disk space. In general, you should prefer the FoxPro version of baserunner unless you need dBaseIV compatibility. An application configuration database contains the default and start-up variables for the application. The templates are used to generate web pages that display the data and provide user interaction with the data and the application.
Templates contain special tags that are replaced by the values in a variable or a database field.
For displaying data, these tags consist of an xBase expression that returns a text string in the format . The expression is often nothing more than the name of the database field. Tags that display variables are formatted . These blocks use specially formatted HTML comments to provide those instructions to baserunner. Version 3 adds major new features to baserunner.