Best 4GL GUI Builder??
Date: 29 Mar 1993 12:21:38 GMT
Message-ID: <1p6pkiINN3up_at_unidoct.Chemietechnik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Hi netters,
We're currently designing a simulation/optimization program that will get its data primarily from a (as of yet) unspecified vendors database (Oracle and Ingres are as of yet musts). project consists of developing a GUI for the user, so he/she can modify the data in the database. The target user will most likely have little/no knowledge of database concepts, so we need the GUI to make changing data easier. The GUI builder doesn't necessarily have to be 4GL, I could (have, at least for Oracle) write Embedded-SQL routines to do the database functions.
We'll be developing on a DEC 5000/200 under Ultrix 4.2a.
I have heard of the following GUI builders:
Database Interface
Capabilities Designer
Name Public Domain? built in? built in?
__________ ______________ ____________ __________
Tcl/Tk Yes not yet Yes (Xf)
Xtpanel Yes ? ?
Wcl Yes ? ?
DIRT Yes ? ?
SUIT Yes ? ?
Uniface No Yes Yes
JAM No Yes (DBi) Yes
XVT No Yes (Xi) Yes
XView ? ? ?
Galaxy Yes ? ?
Things Yes ? ?
Xwafe Yes (perl-based) No, but for Yes (xwafedesign)
Oracle there's
oraperl!
Are there any others that I've forgotten?
Has anyone had experience with any of the above? If there's enough interest, I'll post a summary.
-- David Pape | "The people who own the country | pape_at_plato.Chemietechnik.Uni-Dortmund.DE | ought to govern it" | Dortmund, Germany | - John Jay | tel: 49 231 7552682 | (signer of the U.S. Constitution) |Received on Mon Mar 29 1993 - 14:21:38 CEST
