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i used the fourgen forms case tools, and had the same experience with it. for simple data entry screen, working with low volumes of data, the case tools are great. but, if you try to do anything out of the norm (which seldom happens, right!), you find yourself fighting with their code generator. i will be going back an re-writing in straight 4gl all the applications i have written in fourgen. we also use fourgen's inventory control package, and find that it has a hard time handling the amount of data we try to pump through it. -joe- (huddles@hasting.com) ---------- From: ilist To: informix-list Subject: Re: Fourgen's Informix-Forms Date: Saturday, May 06, 1995 7:10AM JUAN MANUEL DE VILLEROS ARIAS (ejda142@delta.eafit.edu.co) wrote: : I'm evaluating the Fourgen's Informix Forms development tool, and I want : to know if anybody has experience and comments about it, or about another : similar tool. : Thanx, Our team is developing large system (about 100 .4gi) using FourGen Forms ver. 4.10. My impressions aren't very good. It's great for implementing simple aplication, but I got in trouble, when I had to implement aplication with complex database schema, many screens... It's a pain when I have to change some of standard features, or add more functionality to application. But it has some good features and I learned lots of tricks. In fact, we use Forms only for generating input and display functions. We have modified its libraries and we write our own database communication functions. IMHO, Forms are usable for learning to write code in 4GL and for developing a small application with simple database schema. Email me, if you are interested in closer look on this issue. Cheers, Zdeno -- Zdeno Miklas SOFTEC spol. s r. o. e-mail: ash@softec.sk Kutuzovova 23 phone : 42-7-273805 ext.128 831 03 Bratislava fax : 42-7-272537 SLOVAKIA ---- message ------