Dawn Why dispense with the work already done in Data/Basic - I know I plug the language, and y'all ignore me, but OpenInsight (the GUI version of Advanced Revelation) looks and feels just like the Gates product, _and_ has the wonderful facility to use your already existing DataBasic code.
The basic is called R/Basic, looks just like DataBasic, with a few extra concepts like mouse control built in. Type ahead works just like it does in U2. You'd have to remove all screen displays (if you wanted to be a purist) or you could do a quick-n-dirty like we did, and get the character based screen output stored in COMO and then parse the required data from there (saved having to re-invent the functionality of each screen. That way the users using character based saw exactly the same data the GUI folk saw without having to create brand new code in an interface one wasn't so familiar with. All we did was write a fancy screen parsing routine, call it from a zillion places, populate a GUI screen and hey! Presto. Somethin' to think about.. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
