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The most valuable investment in any application is human; your developers’ intimate knowledge of your business and their capacity to anticipate market trends is what differentiates you from your rivals. With Genero, you capitalize on that investment and enable developers to fulfill their vision.
Depending on your goals and resources available, you may adopt one of two approaches.
- Short term - simply recompile the existing application with Genero and make minor 'tweeks' to the user interface. Adopt this approach if you need a solution in a matter of weeks.
- Medium-long term - unleash the full power of Genero; add drag and drop, web services, business graphics, and browser styles with a minimum of disruption for maximum effect. Expect a solution in several months.
| Short term |
If you have limited resources and seek a short term solution:
Your application will closely resemble the current one with information organized into screen forms of 25 rows by 80 columns. This is normal; your forms layouts respect the structure of IBM® Informix® 4GL. With a few minor modifications, widgets can be added to embellish the look and feel, but the structural field layout will be the same. The mouse is supported transparently - there is no need to programme anything. |
| Medium-long term |
If you have the resources and want to invest in a long term solution.
You want to rethink the ergonomics of your application. When you first developed your application, graphical objects such as folders, date with integrated calendar fields, combo-boxes, radio buttons, tree widgets, GUI concepts like drag and drop, form controllers such as multiple dialogs and browser clients didn’t exist.
Resize tables, sort/hide columns, perform conditional input and display business graphics over the Internet without the need to write code.
The end result will be a state-of-the-art graphical application. |
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