Re: New GUI screens in V 3.5 -- SYSTEM21

Oh brother, sorry to hear about that Robert!

Everyone has to keep in mind that JBA's GUI tools or PC based screens are
strictly screen scrapers.  There is no true Visual Basic - Like
functionality behind them.  If you have ever seen the software package
GUI/400 from Seagul Software, then you will know exactly what I am talking
about...  Strictly screen scrapers.

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Jim Sehi
Loveland, Colorado
email:   jsehi@info2000.net
"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather,
not screaming like the passengers in his car!"
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert A. Rogerson <rogerson@interlog.com>
To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com <JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: New GUI screens in V 3.5


>Just to add my two cents, from what I have seen of Style V3.5.0 it is all
>screen scrapes.  No checkboxes, combo boxes, etc.  The only controls I have
>seen are text boxes and labels.  They are even staying with a '1' or '0' on
>a Boolean field (when it's not 'Y' or 'N' or '1' and blank or 'Y' and
>blank).  I hope they hire so PC people to improve the PC interface instead
>of using green on black people to tell PC users what they should be seeing.
>
>Sorry about bad mouthing JBA but I just finished recovering from 103
>duplicate invoices (no exaggeration) that were all posted to AR and GL with
>incorrect amounts.
>
>Robert A. Rogerson
>
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>> From: Dan Thomas <DThomas@lpw-mdi.com>
>> To: 'jbausers-l@midrange.com'
>> Subject: New GUI screens in V 3.5
>> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 10:52 PM
>>
>> I'm curious if anyone is actually using any of the new Visual Basic
>> screens shown by JBA in their technology previews and demos while they
>> were selling us.  We recently received the Explorer CD (V 3.5), but all
>> the screens still look like the same screen scraper screens we had with
>> Client Workspace.  I've also been unable to get anyone at JBA to explain
>> how these new screens are to be modified.  Is it done using Visual Basic
>> tools, something like Designer provided with Client Workspace or by
>> modifying the AS/400 RPG code?  It is kind of incredible to me that no
>> one has been able to answer this question since this is supposed to be
>> their future direction for screen presentation.
>>
>> Dan Thomas
>> Sr. VP Information Systems
>> Medical Distribution, Inc.
>> Louisville, KY   USA
>> 1-800-870-9526  ext 120
>> email  DThomas@lpw-mdi.com
>>
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