Re: Alternative 4gl compilers/NT ?

Niles D. Ritter wrote: > > People I have been working with have indicated that Informix is not > planning on supporting the 4GL language under newer systems such as Windows NT, > and are actively encouraging the use of NewEra instead. That would be fine, > unless you already have ten-thousands of lines of code written in 4gl, which > does not easily translate to NewEra. > > Has anyone else heard that 4gl is not going to be supported on > new platforms? > > We've got the beta NT Informix-Online database, but no 4gl compiler. Has anyone > heard of an alternative to the informix compiler? If not, I am probably > going to go ahead and write one myself (yes, I know what that entails). > And BTW, > we have already talked to the people at Query-X. > > --Niles Ritter. I worked with a company in France (4JS). They have a compiler which gives a GUI look and feel to Informix 4GL apps - their Windows front end is 32 bit and therefore runs on NT/95 and 3.1 with Win32S. It also runs in character mode and Motif - the resulting app looks Motif like even on the PC. All ON KEY's become buttons, display arrays become scroll bars, etc. It is for real, they did a demo app for us. My contact there was Georges Tomazi (tomazi@zeta.org.au). Web Page: http://www.4js.com/4js/html/common/doc-f4gl-english.html Good Luck