Re: Touch screen

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Denis,

In a message dated 1/14/00 9:46:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
DRobitaille@cascades.com writes:

> I am investigating the possibility of using touch screen on the shop floor 
to 
> access an AS/400. We have an RPG program that can work with a mouse (push 
> button and all). We would like the user to touch the screen instead of 
using 
> a mouse.
>  
>  Can this be done?
>  Suggestion as to the brand and maker of this kind of equipment.?

Been there, done that.  Unfortunately, my manufacturer experience cannot lead 
me to recommend one.  The primary vendor on the project failed to deliver on 
time, despite an eight month lead time.  The secondary vendor ended up 
delivering, but their equipment proved unreliable.  We brought the primary 
vendor back in for reliable equipment, but still had that "taste in the 
mouth" due to their original failure to deliver.  What _DID_ work were the 
Visual Basic programs we wrote using ESS/400 to access BPCS.

>  Also, if possible, we would prefer a terminal instead of a PC. (more 
> reliable, less blue screen)

Don't know of any 5250 terminals that allow "touch" action.

HTH,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Experience is a wonderful thing.  It enables you to recognize a mistake when 
you make it again." -- Anonymous
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