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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Screenscrapers, HLL API, ???
Date: 2 Dec 1995 00:24:03 GMT
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In article <1995Nov29.123706.1802@gems.vcu.edu>,
Brainwave Surfer <agnew@gems.vcu.edu> wrote:
: I have a blurb about screen scrapers that will manipulate vt100 accounts
: on a vax using something called HLL API, High Level Language API.
:
: Will Kermit use it? Or, is there something that Kermit can use to put
: menus, etc onto a vt100 interface a la screen scraper?
:
: The goal is to let Ingres data entry screens look like windows. Sigh...
: point and click, etc.
:
Long question, short answer: no. You'll need to buy one of those high-
priced commercial screen scrapers -- they are kind of a specialty item
and don't come cheap. Alternatively, you could point out to your users
that it really isn't so very hard to use Ingres menus -- especially
after finding out what the screen scraper would cost, and the horrible
consequences that always ensue from using this approach when, later,
after the ones who put it together are long gone, the underlying (scraped)
screens change format and nobody's once "seamless" applications work any
more and nobody knows why... Well maybe the answer wasn't so short...
- Frank