Re: New GUI screens in V 3.5

Oh brother, sorry to hear about that Robert!

Everyone has to keep in mind that JBA's GUI tools or PC based screens are
strictly screen scrapers.  There is no true Visual Basic - Like
functionality behind them.  If you have ever seen the software package
GUI/400 from Seagul Software, then you will know exactly what I am talking
about...  Strictly screen scrapers.

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Jim Sehi
Loveland, Colorado
email:   jsehi@info2000.net
"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather,
not screaming like the passengers in his car!"
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert A. Rogerson <rogerson@interlog.com>
To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com <JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: New GUI screens in V 3.5


>Just to add my two cents, from what I have seen of Style V3.5.0 it is all
>screen scrapes.  No checkboxes, combo boxes, etc.  The only controls I have
>seen are text boxes and labels.  They are even staying with a '1' or '0' on
>a Boolean field (when it's not 'Y' or 'N' or '1' and blank or 'Y' and
>blank).  I hope they hire so PC people to improve the PC interface instead
>of using green on black people to tell PC users what they should be seeing.
>
>Sorry about bad mouthing JBA but I just finished recovering from 103
>duplicate invoices (no exaggeration) that were all posted to AR and GL with
>incorrect amounts.
>
>Robert A. Rogerson
>
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>> From: Dan Thomas <DThomas@lpw-mdi.com>
>> To: 'jbausers-l@midrange.com'
>> Subject: New GUI screens in V 3.5
>> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 10:52 PM
>>
>> I'm curious if anyone is actually using any of the new Visual Basic
>> screens shown by JBA in their technology previews and demos while they
>> were selling us.  We recently received the Explorer CD (V 3.5), but all
>> the screens still look like the same screen scraper screens we had with
>> Client Workspace.  I've also been unable to get anyone at JBA to explain
>> how these new screens are to be modified.  Is it done using Visual Basic
>> tools, something like Designer provided with Client Workspace or by
>> modifying the AS/400 RPG code?  It is kind of incredible to me that no
>> one has been able to answer this question since this is supposed to be
>> their future direction for screen presentation.
>>
>> Dan Thomas
>> Sr. VP Information Systems
>> Medical Distribution, Inc.
>> Louisville, KY   USA
>> 1-800-870-9526  ext 120
>> email  DThomas@lpw-mdi.com
>>
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