Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

Trevor,

I agree. When I teach green screen users how to work more efficiently in

their GUI, I show them the difference between field movement keys and
cursor
movement keys. It is amazing how much impact the lesson of Shift+Tab
(BackTab) can have.

That has been my point all along -- I'm not against GUI.  I'm simply for
doing the very nominal extra work to consider keyboard users instead of
assuming everything will be done with the mouse.  Taking the tab/backtab
thing one step further, it is trivial to place ampersands within control
labels to assign accelerator keys so users can jump directly to a given
control when they don't want to follow the established z-order.

Of course the mouse should be available, but with proper training, people
would actually use it much less.

And, how many

people know that Alt+DownArrow will show the contents of a list/combo
control?

Or that F4 does the same thing.  This should be especially easy for iSeries
users to remember since F4 is the typical "prompt" keystroke.

Doug