Re: DDS to HTML

["Maurice O'Prey" <maurice.oprey@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Booth's comments

I've come across many customers (and top technicians) who have tried this
and not a single one who was or is happy with the result?

In that light it doesn't seem like a path to consider...

- Maurice

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: 23 September 2008 19:34
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] DDS to HTML

Visual Age RPG used to do this, but to Windows, not HTML.  It was pretty 
reliable.  I mention this because the experience was universal with 
everyone I knew that did it.  The results are just not usable.   DDS 
screens are built for the cycle, GUI screens are built for event-driven 
design.  Nothing fits, colors are a mash, F-keys are clumsy, and menus 
just plain suck.

The experiences were just awful for the users and an embarrassment for 
the programmer.

(That is just opinion of course, but my reaction is that there are good 
reasons that no one has built the tool you are looking for. )

Burke, Joel wrote:
> All I want to do is convert screens to html (or xhtml) forms. The
> backend programming will be handcoded.  I'm just looking for a way to
> avoid manually coding the screen field.  Software that would convert the
> screens would give me a good headstart. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of David Gibbs
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:50 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] DDS to HTML
>
> Burke, Joel wrote:
>   
> > Do anybody know of any software that will convert DDS to HTML?  I am
> >     
> not
>   
> > looking for a complete web solution. Just a tool to write the html. 
> >     
>
> Convert what kind of DDS to what kind of HTML?
>
>
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