At 16:09 25.06.2002, Ganesan M wrote: >Hello list, > > Please pardon me if it is not related to the list. > > We have a C application which runs on both SCO open server >and Red Hat Linux with Oracle/Informix database. It is a text >based application originally developed for CRDS box with UNOS. > > Now management needs a GUI for the text application. I have >developed some report screens using Apache/Mod_perl/GD. >They kind of liked it. Now they want to do a full fledged GUI. > > My suggestions are: > > 1. Get rid of screen driver codes from the existing C programs > 2. Use "Inline C" in the mod_perl programs and run it through apache >webserver as a web page. > >But, some of my colleagues are suggesting to write a Java/VC++ >Interface for the GUI.
The problem you're looking at is rather different: should you try and create a *web frontend* or should you create a normal GUI? Largely depending on the nature of your application, the answers will be different. I can't say much more without knowing more about what you're trying to do: but to me it seems like if you need GD to do the job, you should probably be looking at a standard GUI instead. This needn't be done in Java or VC++, you could use any programming language with a windowing library, like Perl with Tk (or Gtk or Qt bindings, but I don't know much about any of those) or anything else. My answer: it depends :) -- Per Einar Ellefsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
