Re: [open-cobol-list] Fwd: open-cobol-list Digest, Vol 51, Issue 3

[john]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:58:45 -0700
address@hidden wrote:

> 
> For my two cents I'd rather have UDF and a solid framework for 
> integrating with a GUI api.
> COBOL is a solid language and has been for many years.  If I ever get 
> anytime I want to work with Brian Tiffin on solidifying a working 
> framework with some GUI interface language.
> I think that will help move OC onto a more accepted platform in the 
> windowed world.
> 
> Again my two cents.
> Damon

Another COBOL, no longer maintained actively, called Tiny COBOL, had an
interface with web pages. I can also use the Expect version of Tcl/Tk
to communicate from a Gui to a called COBOL program.  The difference
is, with Tiny the COBOL program calls the graphic window and with
Expect the Tcl/Tk program calls the COBOL.  

Commercial COBOL packages have their own graphic extensions. And I can
also carve a decent data entry page with positioned DISPLAY and ACCEPT
statements. The virtue of that approach 

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