Re: Informix to resell 4Js as Informix Dynamic 4GL

Nils Myklebust wrote: <snip> > As to the product itself I find it very interesting, and surely very > usefull for many purposes. Another of my warnings is still due though, > that this is no real true GUI development environement. You don't > write GUI code with a non event driven language. That means if the > sole purpose is to create a GUI solution this is a stop gap solution. > For that it can be very good, and needed and very usefull for many. > For a final GUI product something other is required though. > > If the GUI feature isn't the major requirement (but perhaps a minor > side issue, but still of some importance), but the development of > efficient applications is, it may be a tool for a long term strategy. <big snip> There is a significant part of I4GL that is event-driven: the INPUT and INPUT ARRAY statements. As they control a large part of the user interaction in most applications, it should be possible to fool many users. If you accept these statements as the equivalent of modal dialog boxes you're almost there. Now, there is a different question: could I4GL be made to be a direct-manipulation interface? The answer here is almost certainly NO. But then I don't suppose anyone has written anything in I4GL that would need to be; you just wouldn't even think of it! -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 Mail: Peter.Lancashire.PL1@bayer.co.uk --- My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. Sorry. All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. --- Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/