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Attaining A Windows Look for Telnet |
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Wednesday, 04 November 2009 00:00 |
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We all know we need to offer a GUI face for our text-based software. You are justifiably proud of your application. But right now, the wealth of advanced technology you have developed over the years is hidden behind screens that look dated to some. You need to put a fresh face on that technology so that people can see past the surface to the solid feature set underneath. It’s got to have “The Look.” You may have over 20 years invested in your text-based solution. Years upon years of perfected business logic. Rewriting it all in a Windows programming language is an incomprehensibly enormous, expensive, and risky undertaking. You might lose important functionality in the process, and you are certain to experience problems with the new, unproven code. And you would lose the simplicity and easily understood power of your legacy operating system. In short, a rewrite into native Windows is not the answer. However, most legacy programming languages have no native way to create or drive Windows screens. Read More
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