Re: Looking for like-minded programmers who use the enhanced features of 5250

I might add, also, that things like mouse clicks have been enabled in emulators for some time now - so a double-click on a text can put that text where the cursor is and do the enter - or a double-click in an empty area is the same as Enter - or you can set up function keys to be buttons.

And in ACS, at least, it is possible to have the mouse wheel scroll up and down.

Those things give me almost everything I need in a 5250 emulator. So I don't feel a need to add keywords to get that behavior, for those who are still using 5250 emulation.

And, yes I'd like us to go to web-based interface one of these days, timing and resources have not allowed it.

Regards
Vern

On 6/23/2018 3:36 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

Yes they are unused to F-keys - yes they use mice.

But NO - we should not do more with 5250s - we should try our best to forget them and get better web and mobile apps going.

Sorry Booth - but no matter how many scroll bars or whatever you add to a 5250 it is still 5250 and way worse than the worst efforts of screen scrapers.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jun 23, 2018, at 8:54 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would like to compare notes with other programmers who use, or want to use, the enhanced 5250 features like scroll bars, push buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, and MOUBTN().

The user-base today is unused to F-keys. They are used to mouse clicks and the mouse wheel. Isn't it time we acknowledged this in our green screen applications? Shouldn't turning the mouse wheel scroll a sub file? Shouldn't a mouse click open a drop down box of available & valid choices?

I am not particularly interested in lectures on the purity of the 1980s and F-keys and why it is important to teach users that F21 is shift-F-something and that the only way to close a program is with F-3. Except sometimes when we use F-12.


--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.

Please contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxx for any subscription related questions.

Help support midrange.com by shopping at amazon.com with our affiliate link: http://amzn.to/2dEadiD