EasyForm MAKES THE CREATION OF INPUT SCREENS, PANELS OR FORMS EASIER THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN.
Furthermore, EasyForm is designed to be portable across a wide range of computers from Dos character screens to Windows GUI screens to MVS mainframes.
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The EasyForm package provides a simple programmable method of coding Menu Bars, Popups, Data Entry Fields and various buttons. It encourages easily maintained structured programming techniques to be used instead of unstructured event programming.
It is also designed to be highly portable and runs on a wide variety of operating systems and languages.
Why EasyForm?
- Over the years, programming has become more and more difficult, particularly when getting User input.
- Many consultants, engineers and professional people are used to coding in Basic because they find it simple to use - they find the hassles of Event Programming and GUI too daunting, thus many jobs they used to do aren't being done, or are being done but with vastly increased costs due to the extra programming required.
- Similarly, many mainframe programmers with years and years of invaluable experience find the learning curve too steep, and so we are losing some of our best programmers.
- While the use of Rapid Application Development (RAD) such as Delphi and Visual Basic make it easier to code some applications, maintenance is difficult because there is no easy way to view the entire program to see what it does.
When you use EasyForm, there are no complicated
message loops - everything is handled for you. For example, to display
a prompt on the screen and retrieve the name typed by the user can be as
simple as:
Menu_Bar("Files Edit Help");
Input ("Name ",name,30,"Jane Doe");
Input_At("City ",city,30,"Chicago",4,10,4,20);
ReadForm();
The four lines of code above create a data entry form, places a prompt
Name on the screen on the current Row with an entry field
to its right. The use of the Input_At places the City prompt
on line 4. Multiple fields can be placed on the screen, and the User can
use the Mouse, Tab and Cursor keys as one would expect to be able to. A
Menu Bar is included showing Files Edit Help. Popups, Buttons and
Check Boxes are easily added, too.
This is the first version of the Windows version, and may be considered to be in Beta testing phase. All normal disclaimers apply.
Please note that for this initial release, the attributes mentioned in the documentation are not yet implemented in the C version, and thus colour and font changes will not take effect.
You will also need a Microsoft or Borland 32 bit C compiler; IBM compiler support will be added shortly.
Special Introductory Price $99.00, orders over 100, $79.00 each.
