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From: eric@pyrps5 (Eric Bergan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: X/SunView/View2 forms package avail?
Keywords: help, forms, X, sunview
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Date: 15 Feb 89 15:46:53 GMT
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Reply-To: eric@pyrps5.UUCP (Eric Bergan)
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In article <26566@wlbr.EATON.COM> markus@etn-rad.eaton.com (Markus Richardson) writes:
>I am looking for a window-based forms package which enables field data typing/
>validation operating in a GUI like SunView or X.  I have talked to many of the 
>major database vendors (such as Oracle, Informix, and Ingres) and standalone 
>forms vendors (such as C-Scape and Windows for Data) but have been surprised 
>to find that they only support character oriented displays like the vt100 
>terminal.  The SunView environment supports primitives for text field 
>validation (via text panels) so why isn't there such a package available?  
>Alternatively, the X environment would be even better (for us) but no such 
>primitives for building forms exist (that I know of) and it appears that no 
>company is willing to develop something like this for anything but the PC.

	I think it is safe to say that all the major database and
forms package vendors are looking at X implementations. Depending on
your time frame, some may be ready when you need them.

	A more interesting question is the look and feel issue. You would
like a form running under DecWindows to look and feel like DecWindows,
but would like the package to also support Open Look, Motif, and anything
else that may come along until a look and feel standard develops. If
anything slows up introduction of X implementations of the popular
forms packages, it will be trying to come up with clever solutions
to this.


					eric
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