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

We didn't start with Genie AFAIK...as we were already using Newlook(?)...

Think we brought profound in to convert all the screens to Rich Display
Files, but that was before my time.

Profound certainly provides the ability to control tab order...but we
probably need to pay more attention to it ;)

Charles

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 2:53 PM Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Charles

Does Profound do a decent job of making the navigation good? Did y'all
start with using the Genie piece?

Curious here in fly-over land!
Vern

On 6/27/2018 1:36 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 12:24 PM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>
To me, one pretty-good approach is to have the 5250 character-based
interface available, along with a graphical interface - people can learn
to use what is more effective for the work they do.
</snip>

In theory this sounds good. What often happens however is the 5250 gets
the most effort and the GUI gets as much attention as the 5250 help

screen

which says "my boss said to put some text here".

​Worse...there's always some doubling of work...if nothing else, testing

is

doubled.

We use Profound here at my current company, and for a long time

supported a

GUI & 5250 version of our application.

Changes to a screen required changing the 5250 source, the Profound

source

and the program source. The program would then have to be compiled

twice;

FPD1000D CF E WORKSTN
/IF DEFINED (WEB)
F

HANDLER('PROFOUNDUI(HANDLER)')

/ENDIF

But you'd often end up with bits of code wrapped in a /IF DEFINED (WEB)
also if you wanted to really take advantage of what could be done in the
GUI...

Even then, IMHO...we often didn't make the most of profound given the

need

to support a 5250 version.

Finally stopped enhancements to 5250 in 2016 and last year dropped it
altogether....

Life is much better :)

Charles

​

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