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- From: brady@brady.b30.ingr.com (Brady P. Merkel)
- Subject: Re: FMLI Information
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:50:02 CST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.085000.21878@SPM>
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- >Does anyone know of INGR documentation for the FMLI-based forms
- >interface. I'm looking for a good menu front-end to replace several
- >huge shell scripts that perform the same function. FMLI looks like a
- >decent alternative, but I'm also open to any suggestions on 3rd party
- >or public domain stuff that runs on Clipper.
-
- Dean,
-
- I believe that Intergraph's CDD carries the AT&T Documents on FMLI, but I
- think they're for Intergraph internal only (perhaps required by AT&T license.)
- I'm not sure if you can buy it. If you cannot purchase the FMLI docs from
- Intergraph, consider calling AT&T. To get you started without the docs,
- consider perusing the scripts provided by dsm, pconfig, or the XWINDOW
- installation. It's fairly easy to get started, just start at the beginning. :-)
-
- As an alternative, if you can utilize a graphical based interface, instead
- of an alphanumeric one, then consider xtpanel (available from numerous anon-ftp
- sites.) It's an X Window GUI scripting language that doesn't require much
- programming wizardry. It has primitives to call system commands, so layering
- it on top of current shell scripts is a breeze.
-
- If you'd prefer to tackle X Widgets, then I suggest starting with Wcl (Widget
- Creation Language) also available from numerous ftp sites. The latest version
- of Wcl is 2.4. Starting with a very small C program (examples included), you
- can fully prototype an entire application's look and feel, and then add in the
- appropriate callbacks as you define them. Also, Wcl is toolkit independent, so
- you can build pretty OSF/Motif applications with it (given that you have the
- Motif product...)
-
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