Re: Ice cream

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for the suggestion.  I appreciate it.

I am hoping for a parallel but unrelated solution.  Webfacing is 
screen-scraping, I believe?  That, in my opinion, is a kludge and not 
event driven, which is a real limitation of any 5250-based solution.  I 
am trying to open up a simple pathway to a true event-based solution.


On 12/10/2012 6:52 AM, William A. Erhardt wrote:
> You could write the application as a 5250 green screen app and then webface it.
>
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> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 4:39 PM
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> Subject: Ice cream
>
> I am not sure if this request is in the right forum, or even if it is on-topic, but here goes.
>
> I like to do demonstrations/examples of basic techniques on my website.
> Anyone who has visited www.martinvt.com/ knows the stuff is pretty simple stuff.  It has been in my mind for some time to do a demo of a simple Intranet application that does various things with a simple
> physical file.   After several false starts, confusion, and missteps, I
> realize that this simple idea is still too complex for my current understanding.
>
> My intention is to have a dual-sided application:  do the tasks both
> with 5250 green screen and with a browser application.   Lets say I have
> a physical file of flavors of ice cream with a link to an image of the item.  I wish to add/update/delete to the file, and do a couple or reports from the file, including displaying the image in the browser.
> All on an i.
>
> I have lots of questions, but probably the first question should be: Is there already an example out there somewhere that I should look at?  The second question is: Am I tilting at windmills? Is this a foolish idea with no useful purpose?  Third, is this something that is of interest to average RPG programmers?