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There's two of you! Plus Claus in Toronto... > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: Green screen to GUI > From: "Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, September 21, 2005 12:50 pm > To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I am slightly familiar with Visual RPG... > > VARPG Game Programming - http://www.itjungle.com/mpo/mpo081502-story01.html > Visual Age for RPG: Who knew it was so much fun? - > http://www.itjungle.com/mpo/mpo041102-story01.html > Fun with VARPG radio buttons - > http://www.itjungle.com/mpo/mpo042502-story02.html > Introduction to WIN32 API programming with VARPG - > http://www.itjungle.com/mpo/mpo092602-story01.html > Create an animated chicken with VARPG - > http://www.itjungle.com/mpo/mpo092602-story06.html > VARPG and iSeries databases - > http://www.itjungle.com/mpo/mpo060602-story02.html > VARPG Subfiles - An introduction - > http://www.itjungle.com/mpo/mpo060602-story05.html > > From: "Booth Martin"<booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: 9/21/05 10:38:09 AM > To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: Green screen to GUI > IBM did create software that is very Visual Basic-like, except it used > RPGIV > for the coding. It really does work, it really is out there, and you > already own it. > > > > But very very few people use it. I spent a lot of time learning how to > use > it and built several applications with it. It really is nifty, relatively > fast, and users love it. But almost no shops use it. I never could > figure > out why not. > > > > If you want to see what it looks like: > > > > http://www.martinvt.com/Code_Samples/FAQ-VARPG/faq-varpg.html > > > > These two screen shots are Windows and Java, side by side, both written > using Visual Age RPG (the RPG code is shown, too.) > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Booth Martin > > http://www.martinvt.com > > --------------------------------- > > -------Original Message------- > > > > From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion > > Date: 09/21/05 10:26:58 > > To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' > > Subject: RE: Green screen to GUI > > > > For business logic? Heck no. BASIC is a crappy language for business > > logic. RPG is much better. > > > > What you want is a seamless integration between a platform-agnostic UI > > definition language and an RPG back end. The sad thing is that IBM > > could do that today by tying the UML portion of Rational to a back-end > > RPG generator. > > > > Joe > > > > > From: Shannon O'Donnell > > > > > > Amen brother. > > > > > > Personally, (and this is going to get me booed on this list...) I > > would > > > love to see a port of MS Visual Basic to the iSeries. > > > > -- > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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