RE: new project [615]

Or you can use Querix Hydra Compiler, which not only provides you with a windows front end (Phoenix) it also allows you to add in your own ActiveX components to do practically anything you wish with the information that is sent by the 4GL to the Forms (the forms being normal .per files). You can also have a Java front end with allows you to add in Java Beans. An XML / HTML web enabling. A Text Client, And your normal Charter Terminals. All in One with a simple re-compilation of your 4GL code. On 21 Oct 2003 at 6:53, Gavin Dobbi.... wrote: > Actually you can compile your 4gl code into a shared object. The VB or > Delphi app then interacts with the shared object via a RPC (remote > procedural call) layer i.e. CORBA. > > GUI ->RPC ->SO ->Database > > And vice versa. > > One important issue is to ensure that all records and strucures are > defined exactly the same in each step otherwise things do go all pear > shaped. But once in place it works rather nicely. And users dont end up > launching 10 telnet sessions each, mucking about in the backend and > storing tons of garbage on the UNIX box. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: KEVIN GODSMAN [mailto:kgodsman@musto.co.uk] > Sent: 21 Oct 2003 11:32 > To: classics@iiug.org > > Hello. > > A slightly different view point .... > > You can code your interfaces in VB (giving you a Windows interface, > linking into the Microsoft world and gaining access to all the Office > products) AND if your 4GL code is in stored procedures within the > Informix database, you can call the stored procedures from the VB code, > thus re-using your existing logic. > > However if your 4GL code is in files on your Unix system then you can't > re-use it within VB without writing esoteric bits of code linked to > various bits of 3rd party software! > > Cheers > > Kevin > > > > > NOTE: This e-mail message is subject to the MTN Group disclaimer see http://www.mtn.co.za/email_disclaimer.asp > > sending to informix-list