HI Massimo & group-
> welcome to the list On 05/27/2016 03:09 AM, Jim McNamara wrote: > I checked out Rivet and it is really cool. I am going to test it out > this weekend. I hope every one has a nice memorial day weekend in the U.S. > Have a cool weekend outside the U.S. too! > > I am going to be experimenting with gnucobol. They are looking for a web > interface or gui interface and tcl/tk is one of the top candidates for > that to happen. I am checking out how I can get data in and out of > gnucobol. I have ideas how to go about that. Gnucobol just has a screen > interface for now. I am interested in passing data in and out for > processing but for now would like to use rivet to do the forms instead > of the screen section in cobol. > I'd have to CRUD with html form wizard in rivet and then pass to the db > package/module in a tcl file. I could then transfer the data to/from > cobol when needed for processing in a step that is separate from form > submission and then form processing. It is that 'extra step' that is > required I need to figure out. Brian at gnucobol demonstrated in the > Massimo wrote:> interesting problem, can you figure out how to solve it? Do > you have > some sort of server process running Cobol code perhaps talking through > some communication channel with clients? cobol developers forum Here is a link. The developers of the gnucobol compiler understand it better than me. They are working on a solution for TK to this but it won't be implemented for a while because they are concentrating on the next release due out kind of soon. Please write them at the link if you have a question. I am fooling with cobol and going to try Rivet for something fun to work on in my spare time outside of work. thx. for writing!jim
