I’m just curious if any of you had/have pleasure to work with Sybase’s text GUI rapid application development environment called APT Workbench.

Below are some screenshots to illustrate what I’m writing about.

First, the login window:

Creating new form:

Forms menu:

Form attributes:

Fields menu:

Field attributes:

Field special attributes:

Does any of the keywords ring the bell?:

CALLFORM
CANCELFORM
POSITIONFORM
USEFORM

SUBMIT LOCAL
SQLBEGIN
   SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ...
SQLEND

After Googling for a while I’ve found some archive of a group: sybase.public.apt-dwb-sqr and also here on Sybase Community Forums.

Since APT isn’t, for quite a long time, any more supported by Sybase, some applications needed to be converted/rewritten to other platforms. I’ve seen some code automatically converted from APT to PowerBuilder by AnyLEX (site unfortunately under construction).

If you happen to be stuck with some of your legacy code written in the APT, contact me, I can try to help.