Re: 5250 Delete key

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fair and responsive replies, up and down the line.  Especially the 
*what?*.  :)

As most of you know, programming the midrange platform is my version of 
a kid's video games.  I'm hobby programming at an average skill level.  
I continue to believe that the IBM data base design and implementation 
is more solid, more complete, and more secure than any other commercial 
database yet offered to the public.  I also believe the Internet has 
developed an intuitive user style that is understood across cultures and 
languages without much need for a Help key.

I believe there are many Internet techniques that we can and should 
adopt in our 5250 world for our Internet savvy user base. Mouse 
navigation.  Point & click.  Scroll bars. Sort-by-column subfiles.  
Default values saved by application and by user. Push buttons. Check 
boxes & radio buttons.  Shft-F5, not F-17.

Also: drop down boxes with autocomplete.  Which this question is about.  
How does one delete an HTML autocomplete value?  By selecting it and 
then the Delete key.  How do we do it?  By opening another program and 
editing a file  -  so 1980s...yuk. This is the answer to the "*what".*

Clearly block entry v. key entry is a stumbling block.  Still, it is not 
a wall.  Many design problem disappear with a few simple architectural 
changes; most spectacularly, let's design more single-purpose screens 
and stop cramming 35 fields onto a single screen.

Two final points:

   -This is hobby stuff for me; keeps me out of the back alleys & pool
   halls.
   -I like challenges like this, so if you throw out a few challenges
   for me...  Great!!  :)



On 7/28/2019 12:20 PM, John Yeung wrote:
> And maybe even a further step back to ask:*What*  is this for? Like
> you, I have a hard time imagining the use case for this.