Re: Is anybody using Seagull's new Transidiom software (Screen Scraper)?

> From: "Paul Nelson"
> I would strongly suggest you consider the NewLook product
> from www.looksoftware.com . It is a 5250 data stream
> interpreter tool rather than a screen scraper.

Paul,

The way that NewLook transforms the 5250 data stream into a GUI is quite
impressive.  It's worthwhile to download and test it.  But the term "5250
data stream interpreter" gave me a bit of a chuckle.  How is that different
than "screen scraper"?

> From: "trevor perry"
> "Screen scraping" has gone from 'well, that still looks
> ugly!' to 'WOW, it can do THAT?'. Not only can I make
> green screen applications into web-enabled applications
> that the user thinks is something completely new, but I can
> extend and integrate that green screen application far beyond
> what was available only a couple of years ago.

Treavor,

I'm not sure that "web-enabled" is the right term for the NewLook ActiveX
control because of its connection to the Telnet Server, rather than the HTTP
Server, and because of its reliance on a 5250 formatted data stream instead
of HTML, JavaScript, etc.

Nevertheless, could you share an example of what you mean by "extend and
integrate that green screen application"?

Thanks,

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com