Re: Dev. Tools for Informix based apps

Check the 4j's universal compiler: ChUI + GUI off the same executable, and the language isn't bad either... Ciao, Marco _______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco, Catania, Italy marcog@linux.ctonline.it rem radioterapia +39 95 447828 fax 446558 Informix faq http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/informix.htm 4glworks http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog Informix on Linux http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog/ifmxlinux.htm Billy Wheeler wrote: > > On 3 Mar 98 at 16:07, Peter Eckhardt wrote: > > > We are going to develop a medium sized (200 seats) in house > > application. It will cover the complete document > > management, logistics and communication functions requiered. > > The server side is Informix 7.22 on a Unix machine the clients > > are running NT 4.0. The new app should have a GUI, at the time > > we have a terminal based interface. > > > > First approach was to use "low level" tools such as Borland > > Delphi. But the estimated times to develop a reliable product > > with these tools seems to become too long and support will > > probably become a nightmare ... > > > > Now i am looking into Unify/Vision and Magic 8. Does anyone > > have experience with these tools ? What other tools are available ? > > My initial and very brief look left me largely unimpressed by Unify > Vision. I can't comment on Magic. You could also investigate > (horrors) Oracle's Developer/2000 which handles ChUI and GUI off the > same source code. And then there's Informix-NewEra, which I like but > nobody else here does... :-) > > You are (I suspect) fairly limited in your choices by requiring a > ChUI/GUI tool. It might be better to plump for a GUI across the > board. ChUI/GUI tools always lose something in the translation from > GUI to ChUI. > > HTH. > > -- > > /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 > \\ Informix FAQ @ http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html > / Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ > \\________________________________________________________________________________________________