RE: Perform Screens

Posted in 1999

Gabbard, Mike W. — Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:05:47 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

You can set up screens easily using VB & Informix data director. -----Original Message----- From: Joel Robinson [mailto:joel@askjoel.com] Sent: Monday, January 04, 1999 1:15 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Perform Screens I can keep the users satisfied initially with just really simple screens. But I have yet to see any product out there that can do this without a lot of coding. And an additional pain is the cost of the product. Ideally no runtime fees and a reasonable development cost. Peter Lancashire wrote in message <369103A6.5126@bayer.co.uk>... >Art S. Kagel wrote: >> >> Joel Robinson wrote: >> > >> > Any ideas or suggestions on conversion of some old PERFORM screens. Old app >> > was on SCO with character mode screens. Clients insist on Windows desktops >> > / indifferent on backend. >> > >> > Any ideas???? >> >> It is not all that difficult to convert those PERFORM screens to 4GL. >> If you do so using D4GL you will get the Windows look and feel without >> losing UNIX portability and you will be able to continue to support >> character terminal users with the same application during the >> transition to PC and XTerm usage. >> >> Art S. Kagel > >That is true if the Perform screens were not that sophisticated. The >simple part is converting the screen appearance. The harder part is >writing the SQL and control code that Perform ran automatically. > >Then there is the issue of user expectations: in Perform you could not >look up codes while entering data (well - not without some inventive >programming) - in Windows users will moan until they get this facility. >Also, Perform did not allow scrolling on-screen arrays: users will want >those for the details of master-detail relationships. > >-- >Peter Lancashire >Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc >Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK >Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 >-- >If all else fails, read the instructions and the release notes. >Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/