Re: 4GL/GX Questions

Scott, what's your opinion of the 4GL for Windows product. It looks like an interim step toward true GUI which is the 4GL++. In article <CCrvAn.E9A@wetware.com>, Scott Ellard (cse@wetware.com) writes: >In article <266iaaINNkb0@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> rridley@sin-pss.dhl.com (Richard Ridley) writes: >>I have a question about 4GL/GX: >>From what I can gather, if you have an application written and >>compiled using 4GL on a Unix box, and wish to run this on a Windows >>PC, you would need the following: >> >>1. RDS on the Unix box to create p-code. > >No. The 4GL for Windows product includes the equivalent of fglpc. >However, you are correct that p-code created on a Unix box >will run on the PC. The p-code is machine independent. > >>2. 4GL/GX runner on the Windows PC to interpret the p-code. > >Yes. Although the runner is only one piece of the product. >The debugger is also available with lots of gooey stuff to build >message files, look up error messages, compile forms, etc. > >>3. Informix-NET on the Windows PC to connect to the Unix database. > >Yes, if your database is on the Unix box. >No, if your database is on the PC but you would then need SE on the PC. > >>Is this correct ? Is this all I would need or would I also need SE >>on the Windows PC ? > >See 3 above. > >> Is there any other way of using Unix >>applications from a Windows PC ? > >I routinely run PCNFS terminal emulation in DOS and Windows. >I also run X under Windows using a product called Xvision. >Xvision is very impressive. > >By the way, as a consultant to Informix I have connected 4GL >for Windows to the Tuxedo Transaction Monitor product and to >Novell's TCP/IP protocol product and they all worked together >very nicely. This included creating a very large custom runner. >Another nice feature is that User-defined functions are put in >a DLL which is used by both the interpreter and the debugger. > >Scott >