Text-based UI...

Bryan Pope wrote: heh heh - I like the way almost every single reply advocates the use of a different development app/language. I bet the poor original poster is totally confused (which serves them right for not realising that text-based interfaces have their place too :-) I remember doing work to put Java / Web-based front ends onto AS/400 stuff back in the mid-90s (at the customer's request, I hasten to add - they wanted to "embrace the web", along with any other number of nauseating marketing-driven things). It was, by and large, utter hell. Interfacing between an OO language in a graphical, web-oriented client environment and the AS/400 way of doing things was "interesting" to say the least. (not that I'm knocking either - but the two just didn't mix well!)