Re: AS/400 client

["Barry L. Kline" <blkline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Syd Nicholson wrote:
> 
> hI,
> 
> Here is another one for you.
> 
> Cursor positioning is poor. The cursor always goes to the first input field
> on th display. It does not go where the AS/400 program tells it to go. For
> me this is EXTREMELY important. I have clients who will NOT accept software
> that functions like this.
> 
> When writing AS/400 programs cursor postioning is all important and can make
> the difference between a user friendly system accepted by the client and one
> that is rejected. Personally I can struggle on with your tn5250, always
> needing to tab to the field I want to input, but I need to test the cursor
> positioning on displays written for clients. To do this I must reboot into
> MS Windows and use the Client Access version.
> 
> I am forced to use Windows for AS/400 development because of this problem.. I
> rarely use Linux. I am even considering that Linux may be a waste of time
> and reclaiming the disk space for use with Windows.
> 

I work exclusively with tn5250 and I'm trying to figure out an example
that demonstrates the problem you are using.  In the meantime, do what
I do... I run Win4Lin and have a Win95 session available to me.  I
have Office loaded on it for one client who insists that the work I do
for him be in Access.  You could easily load Win98 and CA there for
testing purposes.  

Win4Lin can be found at www.trelos.com.

Barry
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