Re: Help Unix Informix-> MS-Windows

Posted in 1995

Kerry Sainsbury — Wed, 27 Sep 1995 20:16:10 +1200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <4468u7$cdo$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com>, Maurizio Maccani <100723.2330@CompuServe.COM> wrote: If cross-platform is important (ie: you want to retain X-Windows) then: NewEra, JAM6 and Uniface SIX are worth a look. (Although I think JAM and Uniface have pretty cruddy languages compared to 4GL or NewEra) If MS-Windows is enough, then also consider Delphi, or SQL-Windows or PowerBuilder. > I have an Unix Informix Data Base; the End User Interface > is built using Informix 4GL-Form, users access trough an X-Window > terminal interface (character cell based) to the data. > > The end user interface is not anymore satisfactory, there is a > need to migrate it to an MS-Windows GUI. > > N.B. the data base is not to be modified; the accesses are to be > done using a Client Server protocol. > > Do You have any advise on which tool(s) I may start to look at? ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.2 Mar 95 Quanta Systems, Auckland | kcbbs.gen.nz:/informix/informix.[faq|apx] New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | mathcs.emory.edu:/pub/informix/faq/ " " Home: +64 9 279-3571 | http://www.garpac.com/informix.html