Re: 4GL to GUI conversion

Hi all, I would like to say a few words about the comment above. SuperNova, which is one of our customers BTW, does not have a product to translate I4GL to their proprietary 4GL. They have a product named I4GL Extender which is in fact the Four J's Universal Compiler and SuperNova's proprietary Windows client. I also have to say that we do no produce "TCL code" but we based one of our clients on TCL/Tk. We supply also an ASCII interface, as well as a HTML and a Java client. Jean Georges Schwartz Four J's Development Tools URL: http://www.4js.com/ Email: jgs@4js.com -----Message d'origine----- De : Billy Wheeler <billy@west.co.za> ' : Nick Leporacci, Jr. <nicklepo@concentric.net>; informix-list@iiug.org <informix-list@iiug.org>; bradw@power.net.au <bradw@power.net.au> Date : vendredi 27 mars 1998 09:26 Objet : Re: 4GL to GUI conversion > Nick, Brad, > THe problem with a screen-scraper is: where do you go from there? The > 4Js compiler is very good, but does not allow you to build a true GUI > -- it just presents your 4GL as a thin client. You would still have > to continue developing in 4GL. > > I was very impressed with SuperNova (so impressed I bought the > company! Actually I just signed up as a distributor :-) SuperNova > have something called the I4GL extender, which translates I4GL into > SuperNova, retaining all the existing business logic. Your existing > system is then in an environment which allows true n-tier > client-server, dynamic application partitioning and all the other > buzzwords. :-) > > On 26 Mar 98 at 8:59, Nick Leporacci, Jr. wrote: > > > > I've been looking at a product from California Associates called > > Opal to do for us what you've described. It is a GUI product that > > sits on your PC and gives you a link to the Informix database using > > ODBC drivers. The nice thing about it is that you don't really need > > to be a programmer to get started. It uses a screen scraping > > technology that uses the underlying 4GL code and displays the > > screens in a GUI format. From what I understand, it does have a > > programming language built in to write code from scratch, but that's > > not it's forte. The person I was talking to is based in > > Massachusetts. > > > > > Bradley White wrote in message <6fd3bc$b39$1@news.iinet.net.au>... > > >I was wondering if someone out there could possibly assist me with the > > >following scenario. > > > > > >We have a large number of customers with applications developed with > > >Informix 4GL. The size and extent of the applications varies considerably. > > >We would like to find some sort of conversion utility which will transfer > > >these applications from text based applications to GUI based applications. > > > > > >We are open to suggestions in regards to the destination environment. So > > > far > > >we have located one system by the name of 'FourJays' which converts the 4GL > > >to TCL code. Are there any others on the market? > > > > > >Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Please email your > > >responses to bradw@power.net.au.