VX-REXX


VX-REXX is a highly extensible REXX GUI development system for OS/2 developed by Watcom and initially released in 1993.
Much of the new code in eComStation has been written using VX-REXX.
Though REXX is itself a 3GL, the VX-REXX interface allows you to build REXX programs using a combination of 3GL and 4GL techniques; its drag-and-drop interface to inserting code allows quite complex programs to be built without actually entering any code.
VX-REXX's interface is itself written in VX-REXX, which means that it can be extended and/or modified using REXX code; it also has a number of macro hooks which can be used to add to its functionality directly.
The toolbox contains a number of standard tools and some more specialized ones. Additional controls can be built using SOM and distributed as.DLL files; anything from simple variants of existing controls to completely custom-drawn controls can be written in C, compiled, and added to a VX-REXX project.