[Info-vax] Last Call for (New) DEC VT Terminals

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-07-01 00:25:
> On 2015-06-30 20:10:38 +0000, Dirk Munk said:
>
>> How about FMS based applications?
>
> FMS and TDMS and DECforms are necessary for legacy applications, but I'd
> not expect much in the way of new command line interfaces, much less much
> new work with those tools.
>
> It's rare to see much screen management on most development- and
> operations-related tools intended for the command line, too.
>
> Having used it, FMS is exceedingly primitive compared with some of the more
> modern GUI tools that are now available.   Compared with FMS, the GUI
> Interface development tools and libraries have improved in the past ~25
> years, after all.
>
> As for command line work, I'm very rarely ever doing fancy terminal
> displays for serial interfaces, and — if I were — using ncurses for
> command-line and curses if that's all that's available, or using Qt or
> maybe GTK+ for portable GUI work, would be typical.   Current versions of
> these tools are not available on OpenVMS, when last I checked. These are
> all more effort than the tools for native interfaces, too — using the
> native GUI tools generally provides the best results.    The bx and
> long-deprecated VUIT would the the closest GUI-development analogs on
> OpenVMS, but it's been a very long time since I've seen either of those
> being used anywhere.
>
> Again: it's very rare to see the command line used,...

Maybe semantics, but all our users comes directly into a menu system
and run the VT apps from there. They never see the $ prompt, if that
is what is ment with the "command line"...


  outside of development
> and operations and troubleshooting, and outside of the context of existing
> (and usually very old) applications.  New user interface work is almost
> always GUI based, even if there's an underlying command interface available
> for scripting or related tasks.
>