RE: New COMMON Conference

Scott,

Have you successfully enabled the field exit key in a GUI screen format?
Until we have that capability out of the box with no programming, I'll still
espouse the green screen.

In fairness, the only GUI software I've seen that has a "real keyboard" is
from Look Software, but that was a telnet connection under the covers. The
cool part was the ability to toggle between green and GUI.

I don't know if Look Software carried the keyboard mapping over to their web
interface.

Many of my clients are using software from Computer Guidance Corp. in
Phoenix. They had the Look Software product at one time, but for some reason
they were "forced" by IBM to go the web interface route.

The result is software that looks pretty, but if you're sitting in a job
trailer 200 miles from the office, a Client Access telnet session beats the
heck out of a web interface.

I have written a green screen program to enable those users to do higher
speed data entry into the same files as the fancy payroll entry program.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:59 PM
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Subject: Re: New COMMON Conference

Don,

You're absolutely right. The problem, in many cases, has nothing to do
with how functional 5250 screens are. It has to do entirely with how
the users perceive them.

That's not true 100%, of course. There are places where pictures,
graphs, etc, are useful in business, and having a GUI screen makes those
work much better.

However, there are many circumstances ("key 150 time cards") where it
doesn't matter whether it's green screen or GUI from a functional
perspective. But, to the user's perception, it makes all the difference
in the world. And I haven't found any way to combat that perception,
aside from providing GUI, modern, display interfaces.


On 8/16/2012 4:49 PM, Don wrote:

No Paul, you supposed to go GUI...it's politically correct, it looks nice
for the simple minds in marketing, it's what everybody wants, it's what M$
has overmarketed the world to believe is what's supposed to be the
standard....oh and btw, you'll probably have to hire an additional person

or

two because it may be slower than your green screen if you're going to

make

that large payroll in time... :)