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Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

Doug,
Preferring to key is a matter of personal preference, and with modern well-designed GUI's, a mouse is not a hindrance. Maybe you need to play more Solitaire :-)
I agree about the z-index issue. If you happen to BE a keyboard person, this is frustrating. At that point, I attribute that to lack of attention to detail by a programmer - which is nothing unusual in our world anyway. So, I stop whining and use the mouse.. 

Trevor
----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Handy" 
Subject: Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence



If the

keyboard is the dominant function, then the mouse should be in the
non-dominant hand.



I disagree with this.  You should not need to use the mouse at all, and
should be able to keep both hands on the keyboard at almost all times.

One of my pet peeves is GUI "designers" which fail to set a proper z-order
to controls so that tabbing is logical, and who fail to assign accelerator
keys or assign them wrong so they overlap menu functions. With a *properly* 
designed GUI, I should be able to navigate *faster* with the keyboard then
with a pure green screen due to the acceletator keys to instantly jump to my field or control of choice -- without using the mouse or needing a bunch of 
tab strokes.
And by having keystroke sensitive logic instead of block mode, you can often save the user even more keystrokes by predicting where they need to go next 
based on context.

Doug

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