Re: [open-cobol-list] OC_GTK help

[David Essex]

There are lots of 'platform-independent' toolkits available, mostly 
written in C++.

Some have multiple GUI's plug-ins, such as wxWidgets [1] (GTK, Win32 
...). Some use their own widgets to give a consistent look and feel, 
such as FOX [2].

Haven't used KDE in a long time, and haven't done any programming using 
Qt, so I can't comment.

Not familiar with the HP3000.
And the only screen scrapers I've seen are for I*M mainframes.


Michael wrote:

> 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.

1) wxWidgets
http://www.wxwidgets.org/

2) FOX
http://www.fox-toolkit.org/