I am in search for good literature to learn Progress 4GL. This is a workspace-related project, and funding for training is not available. I've tried the documentation, but it is inaccurate and pretty chaotic.
I will have to do most work in the ChUI on OE 10.1B.
I am aware of several books that are available on lulu.com. Which ones are actually good?
having worked in that language for several years, I recommend the documentation. Progress publishes a series of about 30 books which document their language, and which cover most topics in (usually) good depth. I never needed a third party book with the full progress docs available.
Take a look at QUE Books. They had a book written for Version 8. It is out f print but maybe someone has it.
Gary Mittleman [email protected]
If you are working in a character environment then the older books are probably most suitable. Newer documentation will tend to focus on GUI environments and thus probably won't meet your needs. The character environment hasn't changed and so the old stuff is still good,
"Making Good Progress" is a tome but it was released when GUI was new and there was still a lot of character stuff:
http://www.wss.com/publications/books.html
Of course if you are working in a character environment you are also probably working within a specific application partners environment and they will have their own framework and coding conventions that you will also need to learn. That sort of thing has to come from the partner.
For "cookbook" answers you should probably go to one of the Progress focused online forums. The "official" site is http://communities.progress.com/pcom/index.jspa but traffic on general programming subjects is fairly light and there is virtually no participation from PSC itself. http://peg.com is much more active. There is also http://progresstalk.com.