Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:54:04PM -0500, Del wrote:
> I just finished converting a medium sized application from Menu Master to 
> filePro menus.  This was on Windows XP.  Before they contacted me, I did not 
> even know that Menu Master was available on Windows, since I normally run 
> only SCO Unix.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, it's not.

> This was a LOT of work, especially the reports and writing selection 
> processing to do what the menu master replace function was doing with the 
> selection sets and processing table substitution.

Yep; I'm staring that down right now.  And only for one small menu
tree.

> My idea has been to write a filePro front end to interpret and execute our 
> original menu maestro scripts.  I did a little quick and dirty pilot to make 
> sure this could be done, and it worked ok for the limited subset of menu 
> maestro functions that we use. THE IDEA WAS TO GET RID OF ALL THIRD PARTY 
> SOFTWARE SO AS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF FILEPRO'S EXCELLENT PORTABILITY BETWEEN 
> OPERATING SYSTEMS.  However, none of my customer's were concerned enough 
> about it to pay for a conversion, so the idea was never fully implemented. 

Yeah.

> So they are stuck on SCO Unix as long as they want to run their existing 
> applications.  The ones that want off are more interested in moving to our 
> SQL/Cold Fusion system, which is now ready for prime time.  But I still 
> think the idea of replacing menu maestro (menu master) with a native filePro 
> front end to read the same scripts is the way to go to achieve portability 
> with our existing systems, because we have literally hundreds of menu 
> maestro menus and converting them to filePro menus would be even more work 
> than writing an interpreter.

Interesting datapoint.  How many servers is that?

Cheers,
-- jra
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