David,
You mentioned Native windows API for GUI development, and I
appreciate the input. Have you looked at Qt? I heard that it is
platform-independent. I heard that Qt uses the native API for GUI
development on whatever platform it is running on. For native windows
I have used a commercial product called Cobol SP2, from Flexus, it is
multi-platform, but when running on unix it still requires a Windows
ThinClient. For the HP3000 migration stuff I highly recommend SP2 for
screen conversions, and the Eloquence DBMS for database conversion.
But sill, I have no real Linux (or GNU/GPL) solution for GUI screens.
Michael Anderson,
832.515.3868
David Essex wrote:
Michael wrote:
...
<Optionalreading>
I've been using Linux for years, but only using it (network config,
web/html , email, ftp, and stuff like that), no real programming.
I've been writing Fortran, COBOL, and some C for decades in the
mini-mainframe world, started with Fortran/66 in 1983, then ansi74
COBOL in 1986, very little C.
OpenCobol is my path to multi platform programming. I really want
to _thank everyone _evolved in developing OpenCobol.
There are other areas I need to conquer in a multi-platform
environment, GUI, DBMS, and System calls or intrinsics.
However, right now I can't seem to compile anything worthwhile!
When (not if) I get running with this, I'll be serious advocate for
OpenCobol!
</Optionalreading>
GTK is a UN*X toolkit, and a front end to the WinAPI.
It is rarely used on WinXP (even with Cygwin or MinGW).
A native WinAPI C application is relatively easy to write.
And since OC generates C code, it is easy to integrate.
Brian, maybe you could add an native WinAPI example to your FAQ, for
Cygwin (MinGW) users.
You can find a trivial example included in the TC source code [1]
(test.code/tgui02).
Hope this helps.
1) TinyCOBOL download
http://tiny-cobol.sf.net/download.php
http://prdownloads.sf.net/tiny-cobol/tinycobol-0.64.tar.bz2
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