Re: 4GL / New Era question.

Spetc@aol.com wrote: > > I heard a few new things today, can anyone confirm them? > > 1. It is relatively easy to convert from 4GL to New Era. > According to the folks I have spoken with if you have seperated your screen interface from the rest of the world, this should be no real problem. > 2. New Era is a healthy product, going places, and will be a big player in > the lucarative > GUI market. > IMO the GUI interface of the current version is rather anemic, very much of the VB 2.0 era. No MDI, no 3d effects, no accelerator keys to fields or buttons (alt+A to jump to the address field), a very weak grid. The underlying language and OO structure are very good. The next version should be better on the GUI side, but I don't know how far it will go towards bringing it to any where near state of the art. If you are looking for GUI strengths, NewEra is not it. If you are looking for a very solidly architected language, NewEra is it. > 3. It is possible for NewEra code, which runs on a PC, to also run on Unix , > character based, terminals with little conversion (where I guess mouse > clicks become keystrokes). ie they use the same source code > stream. Don't know. Haven't had the need to find out. Hope this helps. -- John Gose Gose_Jo@leg.wa.gov Opinions expressed in this message do not necessarily reflect those of myself, my organization or anybody else. I don't know where they come from... it scares me sometimes.