Re: A Better Way To Write Pick/Browse Lists [1/4]

In article <1993May11.211007.26937@rpslmc.edu> eklhad@siss81.sis.rpslmc.edu (Karl Dahlke) writes: >Informix claims a ten fold increase in productivity via 4gl (as opposed to C), >and they may be right, but the development of picklists and viewscreens remains >prohibitively inefficient. Various tools speed development considerably, >if you and all your users are running on Next stations, or X terminals, >or whatever. But these tools are sometimes inadequate >and never general. >They don't generate or maintain one software system that >you can control, that runs all your screen interfaces >via common source code. >In this sense, 4gl-gx is definitely the correct concept. >but then you are still stuck writing all those input arrays and >forms and cursor control and ON KEY F6, >and the same stuff over and over and over, but slightly different each time. [stuff deleted] Has anyone had a chance to try out Informix's newest product -- ViewPoint? Any comments? The first iteration is for MS Windows with (supposidly) Unix versions coming next month. Along with their companion product Hyperscript Tools, ViewPoint looks like one of the (potentially) better ways to overcome the gross way the current 4GL handles the GUI front-end data entry. At least the product looks (!) on-par with those of Access and Paradox for Windows, etc.