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RPG GUI Extensions/400 Brochure (Adobe Acrobat PDF)

The AS/400's operating system, OS/400 does not ship with a windowing system. RPG GUI Extensions™ provides this missing windowing system and gives the RPG programmer a set of native AS/400 GUI APIs for their RPG applications. A well designed Graphical User Interface (GUI) must provide a modern, intuitive, and highly interactive interface to the user. The two primary operatives are:

Intuitive – The application user should require almost zero training.

For example: it should be extremely obvious to a user who has knowledge about drugs to use a "Drug Information" application.

Highly Interactive - Every event caused by the user should be acted upon.

For example: When a user enters a keystroke, and there are actions that the application could perform, it should.

RPG GUI Extensions/400™ can provide both!

The advantages of our approach for developers are:

Write the complete application using only the ILE RPG language. This allows programmers to use their language-of-choice and have rapid application deployment too.

Write the complete application on one platform only, the AS/400. This has several advantages:

	Rapid application deployment - Interactive GUI Builder
	Maintain one set of code - ILE RPG on the AS/400
	One operating system to support - OS/400
	Direct access to all AS/400 API's including the database system - no ODBC etc.
	Reduced logic and logistics complexity - Client/Server schemes are not used

Example: Through the use of the VTCL, an Interactive GUI Builder included with RPG GUI Extensions/400™, the programmer defines the GUI screens with components, called widgets, such as list boxes, menus, buttons, radio buttons, directory/file list boxes, or entry boxes. (This replaces any DDS used to define green-screens.) The programmer then places calls to RPG GUI Extensions/400™ APIs where RPG EXFMT statements would typically be used to write to green-screens.

Display and Communications Requirements: The underlying X Window technology allows the application to be accessible from any TCP/IP capable LAN, WAN, or the Internet using workstations that range from 486 Wintels to Pentium Wintels to Palm computers. For any UNIX/Linux based workstations, nothing more is needed. Microsoft Windows or Macintosh workstations can join in too with the addition of X Window Server (display) software.

	OS/400 V4R4 or later is required.
	See contact us for Pricing and Personal Demonstration over the Internet.

RPG GUI Extensions/400 development package includes the following development tools:

	VTCL GUI builder – an Interactive GUI Builder used for window layouts
	RPG GUI Extensions/400, an AS/400 Service Program – linked with your RPG modules to create your complete application
	Simple RPG program example

For more information:

	RPG GUI Extensions/400 Brochure in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format
	Select the "Showcase Article" button on the left for the background behind RPG GUI Extensions/400 and for animated screen examples.
	Contact info@exportventures.com

Call (507) 398-5964 or e-mail info@export-ventures.com for more information and pricing.

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