Re: Cobol / Linux / X-Windows

PR wrote:
On Feb 16, 2:42 pm, btif...@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Not replying for Bill. But I've done a little bit with GTK+ for
OpenCOBOL. The plan is a near full on binding to the GnomeToolKit,
but for now. Buttons, Labels, Menus, File Dialog, a Calendar widget
(and a few odds and sods), enough for simple but fully functional
GUIs.

...

We've also taken Rildo's Tcl/Tk engine from TinyCOBOL and interfaced
that into OpenCOBOL as well. For that layer most of the GUI work is
squarely on the Tk side.

Bingo! Perfecto! This will do the job! THANK YOU! :)

What, are we ignoring the option of calling XLib directly? :-)

Of course, a Real Programmer would just open a connection to the X
server and stream hand-crafted X11 protocol requests to it.

(Back in my callow youth, I wrote a number of X clients - including a
window manager - that talked directly to XLib. 'twas a trifle
tiresome. Wrote big chunks of an X11 server too, come to think of it.
In C, though, not COBOL.)

Out of curiosity, Paul, which of Bill's options did you end up going
with - GTK+ or TK?

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