Re: Screen Designer in RDP

Stuart Rowe wrote:

I've messed with it quite a bit, trying to make some use of it, as it is
quite a piece of work after all. I've never used CODE/400 so I cannot
compare to that. Recently I had occasion to use the Screen Designer to
(attempt to) design records in windows. Totally unusable. The screen would
show correctly at first, but every field you attempt to move or alter ends
up on line 1. Always.

There were problems with positioning inside of Windows. Fixed in 7.6.

Try changing the name of a screen variable in the properties view -- on my
installation, the screen disappears and does not come back until you close
the member and re-open it. The source was still correct though.

Works fine for me.

And how come COLOR(WHT) is displayed correctly but DSPATR(HI) is not?

Don't know. I never noticed that, but it does the same thing on mine.

And I also really miss the "order fields by I/O position" option from SDA.

Me too.

I just find it so generally clunky that I invariably get frustrated and end
up using SDA every time. So much faster. Plus in SDA I can alter my
screens with the conditioning indicators set, not just SEE it that way. Try
individually messing with 5 like-sized constants conditioned by indicators
that overlay each other. Not pretty.

It's not particularly pretty in SDA, either. In fact, at that point I use an output field. If the screens are different enough that an output field doesn't work, I create a new record format.

If you switch to the Screen Designer perspective, the window title changes
to Screen Designer (Technology Preview). Still.

Not in 7.6.

I have an up-to-date RDpower 7.5 installed, have not gotten the 7.6 yet.

Stu

Get 7.6.

Joe