Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] tk support

[David E. <de...@us...>]

Jon Shorie wrote:

> Has anyone looked at supporting a .tk interface to tiny cobol?
> 
> We use fujitsu cobol here for some internal apps that run on desktop pc's.  We 
> are looking at options to migrate them to something that is more cross 
> platform than being locked in to win32.
> 
> As they have a significant amount of business logic in the code, it would be 
> very expensive to migrate to another language than cobol for these.
> 
> We have looked at the .tk toolkit because it would standardize our other 
> internal apps that are based in languages such as perl, python, pascal, etc.

Yes you can use many GUI front ends with TC.
The 'gui*' examples found in the 'test.code' directories (included with
the source code), include working examples using TCL/TK, Wind*ws API and
GTK.

Basically, the COBOL (sub)programs can be considered as just as another
C type function call of type 'int program(...)'.

Have you considered using a 'client/server' model. The data and
'business logic' reside on a server and is displayed locally.

This approach can yield good COBOL code reuse, without major source code
modifications.

The easiest of these methods, would be to use a web interface to display
and update information.

Anyway, hope this helps.