Re: Looking for manuals

Hahaha Bruce!

Charly, I will email you off list for details - thanks.

I work with newlook. It refaces/GUI enables green screen applications with a
set of rules. The shipped set of rules are based on CUA rules - for example,
where headings are, function keys on the bottom, subfiles have a marker,
subfile options above the headings, menu context, etc, etc..

As you all know, CUA rules are not generally followed by green screen
developers. I think the normal rules are:
  1) There is room on the screen, stick a field in it.
  2) There is NO room - abbreviate, now stick a field there.
In my travels, I have only heard of ONE green screen application that
followed CUA rules - and that was one generated with Synon2E. Even OS/400
does not follow CUA 100 percent.

Since most applications do not follow CUA rules, I find my customers want to
know what the actual rules are, so they can reduce the number of customized
rules added to newlook. The problem I have had is finding the CUA rules and
my developers do not have their original documentation. I did a search and
found these manuals were the ones published by IBM with the CUA rules in
them. I got fooled and bought a book on CUA, but it turned out to be the
rules for OS/2.

So, there is my what-on-earth.

----- Original Message -----
From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 6:27 AM
Subject: Re: Looking for manuals


----- Original Message -----
From: "Charly Jones" <charly301@hotmail.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for manuals


> I have them.  Call me.  What on earth would _anyone_ want those manuals
for?
> I really can't imagine.

Charly, remember that most of Trevor's presentations are humorous....
<VBG>

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - iSeries Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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