RE: Green screen to GUI

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

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    -------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.

     

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