🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi, 

I'm desperately seeking advice for a project I'm working on and I would 
appreciate it if anyone can help out by answering some of the questions 
below...


The Problem...
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I'm working on a project called SSSAdmin (Staff Share Scheme
Administrator) which must be done in Windows (3.1 preferably)! This
program must be able to retrieve data from OS/2 Database Manager (DBM) -
which means we must be able to start a windows client for DBM.

At this stage I have developed a prototype in MS Visual Basic which I
have found to be a very nice tool for developing the User Interface
(UI) in and together with the Professional Developers Toolkit you are
able to design nice 3D look and feel GUI's.

At first the idea was that when the prototype was done we would start
all over again with something like Borland C++ and OWL to to create
the user interface for the final product. The problem is that time is
starting to run out and it seems that we can save a lot of time if
we would continue to use Visual Basic...


A few questions...
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1) Is there any way which we can use Visual Basic (to create the user
interface) and link it (in some way) with C++ code...?? I know that
you can make .DLL calls from Visual Basic but it doesn't look
possible to export classes via .DLL's and use it in VB - is this true?

2) How difficult is it to access DBM via VB and are there any reliable
tools which one can use to do this...???

3) Is this a sensible thing to do (in other words, can we expect
trouble if we continue with VB) or should we just stick to using
something like Microsoft Quick C for Windows or Microsoft C 7.1 with
the Windows SDK??? (the latter being the more secure - but much more
tedious and time consuming...!)
Note: It's not a very big, complicated program but it's also not simple
enough to do it completly in VB (I think) - we have to provide some
basic bookkeeping facilities like 3 column accounts etc.

4) If not VB - are there any suggestions for other tools which will
enable us to access DBM and still allow us to develop in C++...??

I would appreciate it if you can let me know as soon as you are able to shed 
some light on this... We have to take adecision regarding the way we are 
going to implement this very soon (possibly Friday already!).

Thanx a lot

:) Andre