Re: Use of Informix with a 'process'-oriented application

Andy Kent (akent@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote: : NewEra is a graphical tool, not character-based. There have been some : mumblings about producing character-based Class Libraries for NewEra but : there must be huge questions about how compatible this would be since : NewEra is an event-driven language and as such fundamentally incompatible ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : with the character-based environment. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Huh? I always thought the event-driven paradigm was *equally* valid in the character-based environment. I sure hope so, since I've written many such programs (I speak from a general programming stance here). Granted, some events, such as mouse events, won't be present in a character environment, but it is still useful to process the keyboard, etc. in an event loop. From a NewEra standpoint, I doubt that screen forms designed with the GUI tool would be very useful on ASCII terminals, so there is a compatibility issue. Another design tool would probably be needed. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't be useful to have NewEra support ASCII terminals. : 4GL will be around for a good while yet because of the sheer volume of : character-based sites out there. Data entry sites just can't justify : ripping out all their Wyse 60s and putting in Pentiums (Pentia??). Not to mention the 4GL legacy apps out there, which won't go away anytime soon. : akent@cix.compulink.co.uk (Andy Kent) : ------------------------------------- -Jeff