MAID

MAID (Modular And Integrated Design) is software tool to create user interface front ends for prototyping and creating interfaces for REXX programs that is available for OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. The OS/2 version is included on "MAID Windows Professional Editor/Runtime Version 4.0 for Developers" and on "Maid V1.5 Basic Editor/Runtime"

Features

 * Repetitive tasks on a GUI - Place repetitive tasks into a GUI front end. With MAID it's a ONE-STEP task
 * A Quick Simple Interface - Setup easy front-ends for complicated tasks. Make the PC easier to use and more accessible
 * Personalised Front-ends - Get your PC to perform your own specific tasks using personalised front-ends, customized on the fly
 * An Easy Database - Get your PC to create and use an Access Database without the need to have Access Installed
 * Extract data From The Net - Automatically download internet information and extract what you need
 * Simply Drawn Front-Ends that work INSTANTLY - You do not have to compile any programs
 * Why not use your computer to VISUALIZE what is happening - Make development, enhancement and prototyping EASIER
 * Easily create and customize your own interface - Make useful personal graphical visual front-end UTILITIES
 * Process information, send email and socket i/o functions
 * Activate and deactivate events for dialogs
 * Dynamic entryfield style manipulation
 * Dynamic resizing of dialogs
 * REXX - for decades, has been widely used on a number of platforms and mainframes to PC's
 * Revive your Old but USEFUL applications by giving them NEW LIFE - A complete visual front end using a few simple scripts
 * Use visual REXX variables - a button, entryfield, spreadsheet (entryfield array), scrollbar, spinbutton, slider etc
 * Link to variable events - when a variable changes run a specific Rexx Script
 * Run REXX scripts simultaneously - Multi-Thread REXX
 * Input/Output Library functions for windows - to enhance REXX Capability
 * Multi-Dialog/File scripts - to keep project files in one place - MAID Dialogs and files
 * Spreadsheet (entryfield array) control support - to visualise data more easily
 * Library Scripts - share common library routines in libraries made up of various files containing rexx routines
 * Additional Scripts - can now be placed at the end of a dialog script
 * Show Event - script can now be run when dialog becomes visible
 * ODBC Dataset Name - listing - creation - deletion
 * Container control - support enhanced from version 1.5
 * ODBC Database creation - support enhanced from version 1.5

Requirements

 * OS/2 2.0 or later

Quick Tutorial

 * Create New project
 * To create a new object right click on an example and select "Create Another".
 * A new dialog is created in edit mode.
 * To add a button for example double click on button controls in the add dialog.
 * Then double click on Add Controls "Push button" that comes up.
 * Position the control element (button) and drop it.
 * Double click the new element to edit the Rexx script behind it or click control event "Click" in the edit object dialog.
 * Click the "Save" button to save the project.
 * Edit Existing Project
 * To edit and existing object right click and select Edit to edit it.
 * View Script
 * Right click the project and select "Open as -> Text Editor" to view the entire script.

Version

 * MAID Version 1.5 for OS/2 (MAID 1.5 Basic Editor/Runtime version)
 * MAID 4.0 Professional Editor/Runtime Full developer version

Link

 * http://www.lestec.com.au

License
Commercial Software

Author

 * LesTec - Les Moul

Related Articles

 * MAID Review by Ashton Mills (01/08/1996)
 * Modular And Integrated Design - MAID - the single step solution