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EGL does not dictate the look and feel of your application.
It simply provides a quick way to drop dynamic data onto
the page, and you
can then go from there wherever your
imagination takes you.
People can be pretty imaginative. How about this, if EGL comes with a recycle bin component then place it on a form that also contains a list of records (a table or grid). In the event that EGL doesn't come with a recycle bin component, perhaps you can place an image on the form to represent one.
Add logic to your table to select and highlight records in the list via Ctrl+Click. Ensure that the application keeps track of the selected records as you page backward and forward. Finally, add logic to drag and drop the selected records to the recycle bin.
Here's another idea. Rather than following the traditional design pattern of paging backward and forward through the list, implement a [more] link that simply causes the next page of records to be appended to the bottom of the table, without erasing or disturbing the other records in the list. Use the arrow keys or scroll bar to navigate through the rows in the list.
Are things like this easy to do in EGL?
My point is that if you get really accustomed to using the components and interfaces that are included in the box, you may stop thinking outside the box.
My purpose here is not to criticize EGL or any other tool that Joe P. or IBM may be promoting. I mostly wanted to encourage Aaron B. and others who may be working on native tools or applications to keep going. When people see IBM and other vendors creating tools that tend to move workloads off the platform it gets discouraging.
I don't really see any parallels between i5/OS and OS/2. OS/2 never got off the ground, while i5/OS has a wonderful legacy. IBM's Power based architecture is wonderful, and growing. While IBM may have neglected i5/OS in favor of J2EE and related middleware, that has opened opportunities for smaller vendors to fill in the gaps.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the USA.
Nathan.
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