RE: Green screen to GUI

["Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Martin,

Can you elabotrate on that? 

I used to try it with the book written by  B. Meyers and J. Sutherland 
(VisualAge For RPG by Example) five years ago.
What I recall it generated a lot of nested directories per project and the 
results of one project can not be combined with another project.

If this is so (and is still the case), then I think it is a very thick client 
sided software, difficult to distibute on your own network, not to mention to 
provide it as a commercial solution.

I agree,  using a tabbed notebook you can combine multiple green screens in one 
GUI screen, given it a more organized look and feel.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.

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On 21-9-05 at 12:33 Booth Martin wrote:

>I am not certain I understand what you are saying, so these comments may not 
>answer your real question.
>
>Visual Age RPG is a Windows application.  It runs on the PC and builds
>Windows (or Java, if you wish) objects.  When you are done creating an
>application you have the needed dll's, etc for a Windows application'
>
>The code that you use to do it is RPG IV.  F-specs, D-Specs, C-specs are all
>there.  You also deal with "parts".  To write a subfile you add the subfile
>part to your canvas, name it, and fill it,just like a green screen subfile. 
>
>One feature that I like particularly is that you can update one window and
>have the result of the update affect fields in another window.  
>
>A part I like is the Notebook part.  You can have a subfile of names &
>addresses in one window and have another window or pane with a notebook part
>and have tabbed pages in the notebook for Mailing Address, Billing Address,
>Emergency Notifications, Last known Address, Photo and Personal Contact Info, 
>etc.  
>
>Of course, VARPG also allows images, if you want a catalog or photos. 
>
>But no one uses it.  Yes, it is Windows based, but in the foreseeable future
>will anyone have a user workstation that is not a Windows product?  If that
>is the case then why are we trying so hard to avoid using Windows?