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

> 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. < some text removed > > 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. True, character apps can be made event driven; but if you look at the features and language of NewEra, there's a whole bunch of functionality that you'd never be able to port sensibly to the character environment. To write a NewEra app to port to char, you'd really have to compromise what you did. I hear from the grapevine that there's going to be announcement about how they plan to address this, so perhaps soon we'll all know the official line. I think they are well aware how much they need to hang on to the Wyse 60 market. akent@cix.compulink.co.uk (Andy Kent) -------------------------------------