Re: Navigator - Make it green screen and everyone will love it

One example of next step after TUI is the ability in the HMC web interface to add a network to a partition. You select the partition, then select the network (VLAN) to add and the HMC creates the correct components even picking a virtual slot for that. Of course not perfectly complete because for example it doesn't handle the O/S side at all. However, you don't have to fill out any form just select from lists.

The TUI is simply more usable for those who like to mouse. Often the tab key works OK to navigate that 'fillable form' but sometimes navigating that way is horrible (see: Most MS windows interfaces!)

The TUI lets you make a mess with the click of a mouse vs the pressing of ENTER. :-)

- DrF

On 2/25/2021 7:35 AM, Patrik Schindler wrote:

Hello Larry,

Am 25.02.2021 um 13:03 schrieb Larry DrFranken Bolhuis <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

BUT when you don't know what us CLI guys know, it's PAINFUL to watch someone who is not CLI trained do so in the CLI.

Yap, I agree. This also universally applies to any other OS with a choice of GUI vs. command line. Although all the menu and fill-out forms in IBM i are in fact a TUI: A middle way between a GUI and a plain command line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface

Allow me to emphasize that neither GUIs nor TUIs free the operator from actually knowing what he's about to do. A fact which sometimes goes missing within heated arguments about the superiority of GUIs. My usual example: If you don't know anything about DNS, the DNS manager on Windows Server systems is equally (not) helpful as being required to edit a textual zone file.

As often, a more elaborate display of my opinion is to be found here.

https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/About_Green_Screens_and_mouse-clickable_UIs

:wq! PoC