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

How about the ability to "rearrange" your application screens without
changing the programs? Trevor showed me a trick that involved breaking up
one REALLY busy green screen into 3 different displays through the use of
tabs.

Paul Nelson
Braxton-Reed, Inc.
630-327-8665 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
pnelson@braxton-reed.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@RELATIONAL-DATA.COM>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 1:04 AM
Subject: 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
>
>
>
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