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Title: Rexx Today
Post by: kim on 2007.05.25, 06:22:07
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QuotePosted by Kim Haverblad - Saturday, 16 September 2006


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Title: Re: Rexx Today
Post by: george on 2007.05.25, 08:10:07

Now that REXX is open source its future looks much better.
http://www.oorexx.org
http://oorexx.wiki.sourceforge.net/

There were many great books published on REXX. One that is still available ls:
Object REXX by Example
http://www.oops-web.com/orxbyex/index.html
Title: Re: Rexx Today
Post by: warpcafe on 2007.05.25, 10:27:15
George,

yep, might be that the future for rexx itself/in general is looking better, however that does not apply to OS/2 and eCS: oorexx basically is what we already have as object rexx on OS/2. The extensions which provide e.g. GUI elements in oorexx (windows) don't work on our platform obviously.
At the same time, there is 1) no need to port that GUI stuff which means in retrun 2) we still have no out-of-the-box rexx GUI elements for os/2 and eCS. We have rexxtk and might some day be able to use wxwindows for rexx on os/2 but still we have no IDE that puts it all together a la DrDialog (outdated gui, no further development).

So we still have the need for some graphical development environment for rexx on OS/2 and eCS which can create native (compiled) exe programs and supports event-driven approach, multithreading features, the whole rexx stuff and so on...
I feel that by having such environment/program we could enable much more people to create os/2 apps...

Regards,
Thomas
Title: Re: Rexx Today
Post by: obiwan on 2007.05.26, 02:19:39
You might have a look at Rexx/DW (http://rexxdw.sourceforge.net). Rexx bindings for Dynamic Windows. Dynamic Windows is a cross-platform GUI toolkit, which does work on OS/2. Rexx/DW works with all the flavors of Rexx I know about, including Open Object Rexx and Object Rexx. I started to use it to add a GUI to one of my utilities just before I decided to stop using and developing that utility. So I did not get very far with it, but from what I saw, although it is still pretty new, it seems like a good, forward-looking solution to what you're talking about.