[Info-vax] User Interface Design, Implementation

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/4/2019 11:11 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> In more recent times, this UI design and implementation discussion can 
> be a subtopic of a larger app architectural discussion, such as 
> model-view-controller app designs, or analogous schemes.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller
> 
> OpenVMS doesn't have a concept of MVC, though that's an approach that 
> can certainly be used within OpenVMS apps.  And MVC has its issues.

Does VMS have less MVC than any other OS?

There are probably way less GUI frameworks available on VMS than
the more popular platforms.

But if the GUI framework is available on VMS, then it should
support MVC just as well as on any other OS.

Various Java frameworks (Swing, Struts 1, Struts 2, JSF, Spring MVC).

Various PHP frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symfony, ZF, CakePHP).

Maybe RoR and Grails would run as well.

> Alas, SMG and FMS and ANSI control sequences and such are very far from 
> the pinnacle of what many folks expect for clients.

Yep.

Arne