RE: Green screen to GUI

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Visual RPG just a "PC" version of
RPG?  I've never looked at it, but if it could combine the power of
iseries RPG with a "visual development" interface, it'd be the cats'
meow.

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:55 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Green screen to GUI

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.
> 
>      
> 
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