Sorry to ask a dumb question but I'm an old school character base programmer from the 80's and am having a great deal of trouble understanding the GUI languages. I've tried several books on JAVA but can't seem to make it work. SO, my question is this: Can anyone suggest a way that I can add a GUI front end to my Unidata database in a language that I can understand?

Are you tried vb6 or VB.Net? There are support to both IDE in U2Client package.
I use UniObjects from 2005 over UV 10.1 with remarkable reliability.
Now i'm using UODOTNET on VB.Net or C#.Net but only in testing environment.

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Sorry to ask a dumb question but I'm an old school character base programmer from the 80's and am having a great deal of trouble understanding the GUI languages. I've tried several books on JAVA but can't seem to make it work. SO, my question is this: Can anyone suggest a way that I can add a GUI front end to my Unidata database in a language that I can understand?

Hi Kevin,
A GUI capable terminal emulator can facilitate putting a GUI on your application (Accuterm, Wintegrate, etc).

You'll need to learn the terminal emulator API and (usually) simple scripting language. You can take it slowly by converting your simple screen first while you learn. If you go further than a basic 1 for 1 CUI to GUI interface you will need to update your UD code to provide extra data for lookups and the like.

I would also recommend learning about UX (user experience) design and how it relates to using particular GUI interface objects (eg key standards, drop downs vs combo boxes vs check boxes vs radio control, using tabbed interfaces, fieldtips, status updates, dialogue boxes and popups, progress bars, etc.,). If you can take the opportunity and put in the design effort to make the GUI experience as intuitive and standard-ish as possible your users will appreciate it.

Cheers.
Stuart

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Sorry to ask a dumb question but I'm an old school character base programmer from the 80's and am having a great deal of trouble understanding the GUI languages. I've tried several books on JAVA but can't seem to make it work. SO, my question is this: Can anyone suggest a way that I can add a GUI front end to my Unidata database in a language that I can understand?

Years ago we tried to make a character-based front-end into a GUI Java. That was a total failure.

I am assuming all of your code is current embedded with input statements throughout. I would suggest creating a simple prototype that can handle a simple code file. There are amazing JavaScript libraries that can do the Web GUI for you. I would stay away from any technology that is a front-end to telnet.

There are many tools from Rocket Software and other vendors that can help you talk to your Unidata database, you just have to find the one that works best for you.

Regards,
Doug

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Sorry to ask a dumb question but I'm an old school character base programmer from the 80's and am having a great deal of trouble understanding the GUI languages. I've tried several books on JAVA but can't seem to make it work. SO, my question is this: Can anyone suggest a way that I can add a GUI front end to my Unidata database in a language that I can understand?

Hi Kevin:

Like you, I too am an old character-based developer, but I've managed to figure out a way of interfacing and creating Web based applications using a character-based program code generator I developed.  

If you are interested, I could show you how I did it.  Contact me and we can set a time where I could show you how I'm doing it.

Regards, Sam

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