Re: Portable Developer/2000 on PC and Unix ?
Date: 1996/03/10
Message-ID: <4hvk1u$m1p_at_gossamer.itmel.bhp.com.au>#1/1
In article <4hlqrk$19e_at_news.nyc.pipeline.com>, utrankar_at_nyc.pipeline.com (Sameer Utrankar) says:
>
>I developed developer/2000 forms on PC Microsoft Windows. The
>application needs to run on PC windows as well as HP-UX. Copied .fmb
>files to HP-UX. Generated to create .fmx and ran it.
>
>Guess what..the application runs fine (functionality wise) but screen
>layouts, fonts, push-buttons, Pull down lists are all messed up. Some
>are not readable at all (too small), some field lengths are to small
>to fit the text that fits fine on windows platform etc.
>
>This means I need to make changes on Hp-Ux. Minor but still changes
>and thus forcing me to maintain two different sets of codes and
>maintenance nightmare.
>
>Isn't this tool supposed to be portable. Are these the limitations of
>portability we have to live with ? Any solutions to maintain one
>source code only ?
>All of us can't be heros. There has to be someone to sit by the curb and clap as they go by.
>
We have ported successfully from MSwin to AIX-Unix.
Note that we had to use the MOTIF generator - F45GENM - there is a f45Gen utility that
looks awful, so avoid that one. From memory it looked much as you describe, so perhaps
that is what you have done.
We have developed in co-orinate system of real, points 6 x 15.
We established this after much heartbreak - on windows we have to
be able to run it on all different terminal sizes and drivers, as well
as on Thinkpads (which was the real killer). This turned out to be the
only solution.
Note we still had to do some rework - eg. the visual attributes didnt come across properly, but not much.
Lee
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