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. :-) HTH. 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. -- /Ciao, \\Billy / \\Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za / Chairman, South African Informix User Group: http://www.west.co.za/~saiug \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________