Re: [open-cobol-list] OC_GTK help

[Michael]

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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