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  3. November 2009

Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

Pete Helgren skrev:
It's the graphical UI that I want. Having someone with little i experience have to start a 5250 session and run a bunch of commands (or even to figure out what a command line is) is getting harder and harder to sell. Basically I want the user to click a link on my web site, download the installer, double click it to start it (so far no typing....) and then be prompted for a valid i user ID and password and then just watch the pretty screen with the progress bar moving until it's done with a "Success!" splash screen. That is what they expect for a Windows installer and they really shouldn't get anything different for the i.

I develop web apps so a command line is an anathema to my target customers. Doing it all under the covers while they are "entertained" by a progress UI is what I am looking for.

Ah. Makes much more sense.

Is this a good use for a savefile? You copy it in, and unpack it?


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