RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

Brad, do you support multiple-page maintenance?  That is, where you go from one 
page to the next, maintaining different fields on each page?  With the ability 
to page back and forth?  If you can do that, I'm impressed.  That's my design - 
multi-page transaction input.  Any fields from the message can be moved from 
one page to the other.

Your field translation is nice; I already do all that, again defined by a 
single record in a table, and I don't use any JavaScript.  I don't have the 
search capabilities; again, I don't use JavaScript, so I applaud your design.  
I support the ability to create an entire file maintenance UI (that is, a first 
panel to display the records which drills to a second panel to edit/copy/delete 
records) simply by defining recorda in a couple of files.  Or, you can define a 
single-panel maintenance application, where the records all show up on a single 
panel, and you can add, change and delete them right there.

You, on the other hand, have done a good job at creating an RPG version of 
Microsoft Access.  It's nice, but does it actually do business?  I don't know, 
Brad.  But all this is still just spittin' in the wind, and I'm off to get 
married and then off to Maui...

Have fun!

Joe

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:57:58 -0500 

>I have.  And I have over 30 companies using it right now (with a bunch on
the way).  If you want a list of URLs, email me privatly and I'll give you a
couple.  Then, I will change headings right in front of your eyes.  It's not
that tough.  It is impressive though.  

And because I implemented ILE in this application, I can put together
another one just like it in 10 minutes.  It's actually pretty simple.  Then
again, you've never done eRPG programming as you admitted on another list
(and claimed you never would).  

Heck my app has even more complex stuff that you talk about.  It will
dynamically build javascript to validate fields that are translated.  For
example, an order status code.  S is shipped, B is billed, etc.  Now, they
don't want to see S, they want to see shipped.  So I have simple translation
capabilities built in where the user can just plug in anything they want, on
any field.  It's up to them.  

Then, if they want that field to be searchable, it knows there is a
translation for the field and builds javascript to do simple validation.  If
they type in an invalid code for that field, they get a message.  If they
have JS off, the App will tell them after it's run.

The user has the option to take a table (or a bunch of tables that can be
joined) and pick which data to display.  They can arrange the fields in any
order, in a row, one on top of the other, etc.  They can specify if the
field should be a search and/or sort field in search box.  There's a LOT to
my little eRPG app that you still claim can't be done.

Well, I did it.  I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

Brad

> Show me I'm wrong.  Implement a completely softcoded 
> generation scheme such as I've done, where someone can change 
> the layout by simply adding a record to a file.  Where you 
> can change the positions and headings of the fields by keying 
> the new heading into a database file, and it affects every 
> screen that field shows up on.  Show me it can be done in 
> RPG-CGI.  Otherwise, it's just empty words.  This is 
> configuration, not programming, and if you don't understand 
> the difference, then we've got nothing more to discuss.
> 
> Joe
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