Back in 1994 When the World Wide Web was very new and long before it was discovered by more than a very small number of people, or generally available, one of our programmers (UC Davis VMTH ) wrote a MUMPS web server that ran on DTM and provided a webbased interface to our hospital information system that was also available to our users via VT-100 type terminals. Years later the system was converted to a different version of MUMPS that ran on Open Source Linux, GTM.
The web interface was much better for use by the doctors and students, but the CHUI interface was much better suited to the staff at that time. Both were very quick, unlike many GUI interfaces I have seen in doctors offices even today.something written in Java. This was driven by administration and outside technologists who had no idea what they were getting into. I have no idea if they have been successful.
Later the web interface was extended to staff also, mostly as staff turned over and new users became less amenable to learning and using the old technology. After I retired, about 10 years ago, an effort was begun to replace the web interface with
Fortunately, the remaining technical staff were able to convince the administration not to waste their time trying to replace the MUMPS running the whole thing or they would have had a costly disaster with it long ago.and personal computers were ready to handle them quickly.
Web based interfaces to information systems do not have to be slow or poorly focused on productivity and efficiency. Although many are, or were, that was largely a result of incorporating too many images into application designs before internet speeds
MUMPS was and continues to be technically well suited to rapid development and deployment of information systems large and small, although it is largely unknown now outside of the circles where it has found a special niche, such as large medicalinformation systems and international banking.
On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 11:49:23 AM UTC-7, retired developer wrote:Thinking about building a loosely coupled GUI builder for M technology users. Think there is any interest?
Hi,
I'm a little bit curious and ask you...
In those old days we all had displays, mostly VT-52 and then the
legendary VT-100 (with all the VT-100 compatibles) as the user
interface. By "old days" I mean some 40 years ago but at least one
company I know, still uses such a computer system this very days too.
...so the question is, are nowadays such displays (or emulators like SmarTerm220, Reflection, Powerterm and others) still in use?
Does somebody knows of (or uses) such character based user interfaces (which are today in use) or were all replaced by some kind of GUI or Web applications?
How was the transition from CHUI to GUI/Web - did the people just
adapted the old Apps or rewrote the whole application?
Regards,
J., the (retired) mumpster
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Thinking about building a loosely coupled GUI builder for M technology users. Think there is any interest?
On 04.08.21 23:02, Rick H wrote:the code is external to any m executable. sort of like qt without the event q issues and all the libs.
Thinking about building a loosely coupled GUI builder for M technology users. Think there is any interest?Hello Rick,
what do you mean with "loosely coupled"?
Regards,
Julius
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On 04.08.21 23:02, Rick H wrote:No. MWAPI is way to slow...and understandably so. And it does not provide for the construction of alternative form of window management. The solution will leverage the technology of tcl\tk (what's that?), and will work in very much the same way as qt -
Thinking about building a loosely coupled GUI builder for M technology users. Think there is any interest?Hello Rick,
what do you mean with "loosely coupled"?
Regards,
Julius
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