Re: 4GL to GUI conversion

Brad, I've been looking at a product from California Associates called Opal to do for us what you've described. It is a GUI product that sits on your PC and gives you a link to the Informix database using ODBC drivers. The nice thing about it is that you don't really need to be a programmer to get started. It uses a screen scraping technology that uses the underlying 4GL code and displays the screens in a GUI format. From what I understand, it does have a programming language built in to write code from scratch, but that's not it's forte. The person I was talking to is based in Massachusetts. His name and address is: Peter Murphy 1 Tech Drive Andover, Ma. 01810-2497 (978) 691-4287 or (978) 685-1400 murpe01@cai.com This info came from his business card, so I'm hoping it's correct. Nick Leporacci Bradley White wrote in message <6fd3bc$b39$1@news.iinet.net.au>... >I was wondering if someone out there could possibly assist me with the >following scenario. > >We have a large number of customers with applications developed with >Informix 4GL. The size and extent of the applications varies considerably. >We would like to find some sort of conversion utility which will transfer >these applications from text based applications to GUI based applications. > >We are open to suggestions in regards to the destination environment. So far >we have located one system by the name of 'FourJays' which converts the 4GL >to TCL code. Are there any others on the market? > >Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Please email your >responses to bradw@power.net.au. > >Thanks in advance. >Brad White >Development Manager >Power Business Systems >Perth, Western Australia >Email: bradw@power.net.au > > > >