Re: Moving from Green screen app to GUI because of push back from younger employees?

That is exactly how I do a utility dropdown box for a field like warehouse or state or other common small lists where we don't want users typing common names over and over.

Dropdown Box <http://www.martinvt.com/SQL_-simple-/SQL_Dropdown/sql_dropdown.html>

Mouse click on the "?" and the drop down box appears. Use the mouse to scroll until desired item is visible, click, and the field is filled in with the chosen value.

Notice also that the scroll bar allows dragging the scroll bar slider row by row.  You are not locked into full-page scrolls.

Scroll bar details <http://www.martinvt.com/Subfiles/Scroll_Bar/scroll_bar.html>

It pleases me to see you respond.  There really are RPG programmers out there willing to move forward into the 1990s!


On 12/12/2017 3:31 PM, Doug Englander wrote:

Booth,

To add to your list of things we do have, we also have Mouse Clicks. You can define single and double mouse click events in DDS and have RPG handle them. For example, you could design a screen where the user clicks on one row of a subfile. One way RPG could handle the click would be by displaying a pop-up window of associated information about the subfile line the user clicked on. If you have a list of items in an order, double clicking could produce a popup that would show the size and color of the item ordered.

HTH,

Doug