Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!micromuse!micromuse!dj From: dj@micromuse.co.uk (D.J.Walker-Morgan) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: New life for old sw Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 91 14:35:01 GMT References: <9106260707.AA04364@vingmed.no> <1991Jun27.092257@wsl.dec.com> Organization: MicroMuse Ltd, London, UK. Lines: 46 klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes: >In article <9106260707.AA04364@vingmed.no>, oaf%pluto@vmsfo.UUCP (Ole Asbjorn Fadum) writes: >|> Has anybody experience with making a graphical interface to an old tty >|> based program? Is it possible without having access to the source (of >|> the old program) ? >One way to do this is to write a separate graphical user interface >process that connects to the tty-based program though sockets or >pipes. You won't have all the flexibility of a integrated program, but >this is sufficient for many applications, especially those with highly >modular and modeless command syntaxes. Some of the mail, debugger, and >game programs floating around do this. >-- >Ken Lee >DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. >Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com >uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee Or you can try Alex. Alex is a commercial product which allows you to "watch" a tty based program and generate an OpenLook or Motif front end for it using the Alex language. I previously worked on developing Alex, writing among other things, a mail front end and creating an off-line reader for CIX (a conferencing system in the UK). You can talk to Alex Technologies on 081-566-2307.... (thats in the UK) Dj ========================================================================= dj@micromuse.co.uk | "I've bought myself a moped, | I've made myself some sandwiches, | Let's see what's out there..." Alexei Sayle | Voice +44-71-352-7774 Fax +44-71-351-7834 ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------- Non-standard Disclaimer : "I didn't do it, it wasn't me, I wasn't there" -- ========================================================================= dj@micromuse.co.uk | "I've bought myself a moped, | I've made myself some sandwiches,