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It wasn't directed specifically at you, Dennis, but since you replied, I'm in a mood to raise some questions.

I'm sure you're right that some people will continue to use the lack of a built-in emulator as an excuse for not moving. It strikes me as irrational, but that's par for the course, isn't it? I suspect that many of these people would just find another excuse if this one gets plugged, but I'm cynical that way.

My constructive challenge is for someone to tell me what they're looking for in a built-in emulator that would make it better than an external emulator. Right now we have the option of the Arcad emulator. Let me be frank: if it worked perfectly and had all the features that Client Access PC5250 has, I'd consider it an equal alternative that uses a different set of keystrokes to switch to it, with no REAL advantage in daily use. Someone please tell me what could be added to it that would TRULY integrate it into WDSCi and give it a REAL, rather than perceptual, advantage. If I have to sign on to a green screen emulator, what difference does it make which keystroke I use or what I click on to get to it?

I'm sure someone will say that they don't want to have to sign on to the green screen at all. Well, great, if you're not developing green screen apps, that makes a lot of sense, and you should keep pushing IBM to provide the tools that you need. However, if you ARE developing green screen apps, aren't you going to have to sign on to that green screen for testing? I don't see a way around it, unless your apps are a whole lot different than the ones I've been working on for the last 21 years. What sort of built-in emulator would provide an advantage in doing that?

I dunno, maybe I just don't get it.

Dave Shaw
Mohawk Industries


----- Original Message -----
From: <DennisRootes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WDSCI-L Digest, Vol 5, Issue 691


As for those complaining that absolutely everything can't be done from
within WDSCi yet, I agree with whoever said that Alt-Tab to the green
screen
doesn't take that much time, and I still prefer it to the Arcad emulator,
which is still a bit buggy and doesn't do some of the basic things that
I'm
used to having in Client Access. To those complaining, I would suggest
that
you tell the developers how you want it to work and why that would be
better, rather than just ranting that it doesn't do it. Just a
suggestion.

Well, if that was directed at me I'd like to point out that I wasn't
complaining or ranting. I simply said that I understand why purely green
screen programmers feel the way they do about WDSc, and gave my opinion
that until WDSc can do everything inside the IDE without requiring people
to switch out to a green screen, I personally feel that it won't gain
acceptance to the regular green screen programmers. Why should they
switch when the green screen does everything they need?

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