Harold, I see that Peter replied and he is the Accuterm guru so I'll give you a user's perspective.
The GUI designer was easier for me to learn than Visual Studio and mv.net. The GUI designer creates the MV Basic code to display the form and stub sections for each control (prompt) and event. You then need to send data to the form and get data from it. It supports grids and tabbed windows. The form is controlled from the MV Basic program so you don't need to know Windows basic. Since the round trip from the form to Basic and back takes a finite amount of time, if you do it wrong, it gets a little slow. As with any tool, it takes a few wrong turns to get it right. I have never used Viaduct so I don't have any idea if the Accuterm subroutines are similar. Contact me off list if you want. Good luck, Don Robinson [email protected] ________________________________ From: "Oaks, Harold" <[email protected]> To: U2 Users List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, December 27, 2010 6:56:53 PM Subject: Re: [U2] ViaDuct problem Charlie- Wow - sorry to hear that. Thanks for the info! I've always considered AccuTerm the 'other' main player in the MV terminal emulator market, and thought about going to them but conversion of the programs to use their forms would be a lot of workwheras the code to run Viaduct forms is embedding subroutine calls in the Basic code. That is, they are quite different. Do others have an opinion of AccuTerm versus SecureCRT? Harold -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 3:46 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] ViaDuct problem Harold, I just Googled Via Systems and got this: *Via Systems Inc. has ceased trading.* If you would like information or have enquiries relating to either the UniVision DBMS or ViaDuct Terminal Emulation software, please visit the EDP Website by clicking here <http://www.edp.co.uk/index.html>. It sounds like they are all but kaput. I suggest you bail ASAP. I know it will be a pain, but it appears inevitable. May I suggest you take a look at SecureCRT? It is a very robust, full-featured emulator, and the folks at VanDyke are extremely competent and helpful. Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates [email protected] The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former, current or future employers, employees, clients, friends, enemies or anyone else who might take exception to them. On 12-27-2010 5:26 PM, Oaks, Harold wrote: > All: > > I wouldn't ask the list this question except Via Systems told me they > no longer have a programmer on staff so can't answer this question. > > Does anyone besides me use Viaduct and make use of programming with > Visual Data/Basic to manipulate Windows forms? > > I really like Viaduct and the forms capability, but there is one > problem that's driven me crazy for years: after so many calls to the > gui capability, a form will simply freeze when a control, for example > a button, is clicked. > > After some sleuthing I know it's that the VTW.RESPONSE routine is > looping thru code where it is waiting for "<End>" to be returned from > the form. Normally this is returned, but when things go haywire it's > not returned and the loop spins forever. > > All is fixed ONLY by rebooting the PC. Nothing else I've found works. > This is obviously a real hinderance for the user community. > > Has anyone seen/solved this problem? > > Thanks- > Harold D. Oaks > Sr. Analyst/Programmer > Office of the Budget and Information Systems Clark County, Washington > ph: (360) 397-6121 x4132 > fax: (360) 397-2342 > > > > This e-mail and related attachments and any response may be subject to public disclosure under state law. > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users This e-mail and related attachments and any response may be subject to public disclosure under state law. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
