Re: User Interface options

In article <437sla$28m@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> corinne@asix.com (Corinne Gregory) writes: >Hello all... > >I need to create a (graphical) interface for folks talking against >an Informix database from either Mac's or PC's (organization is about >65% Macs, 35% PC's) I don't usually do Mac's so I don't know what my >options are. Whatever solution, it needs to be ODBC-based, and >look/behave the same regardless of client type. > >I asked Informix and so far I've gotten ??? > >How 'bout Delphi or Uniface or ??? Are those options? > ViewPoint Pro works on both but is lightweight if you have a lot of procedural logic to deal with on the clients. Delphi is strictly Windows. You can get a Mac with a PC daughter card and make it run Windows (or W4Wg) with tcpip/ipx but the performance sucks big-time. Not recommended for database work, IMO, and I've done it (Progress client against a Progress server on a Sun SPARC). If you really, really need to do both, maybe NewEra under Motif, with the clients running MacX , Xvision or similar XWindows software. Or another GUI 4GL running under X. Of course, doing this you're back to host-based processing with all those expensive boxes being nothing more than display screens. I have no idea how good NewEra is on Motif. I'm using it under Windows and while Delphi has a prettier, slicker screen painter, I much prefer the OO4GL of NewEra. There's more strength in the language. Peter Wiley