Greg,
Sadly, on one Green-Screen Interactive program, I deliberately, by design have the application "Tab out of order", as request by my Boss.
Suffice it to say, it is low usage filter. My boss told me he wanted the user to tab over it. So, I used the DDS keyword: FLDCSRPRG.
But this was by deliberate design, not a mistake. <grin>
PS. This was an "exception" to the normal tab order. <smirk>
-Ken Killian-
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Wilburn
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 8:38 AM
To: 'Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View
John,
You are correct - poorly written interfaces know no bounds. They can be found on any platform and any operating system.
Greg
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 5:30 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My argument is that I cannot recall a single application (on any platform), website, emulation screen, etc. where the TAB key "jumped over" an adjacent field (data entry point)... so why should RSE?
First, I'll say that I have no opinion on the behavior of RDi. I'm (as yet) not an RDi user.
I just wanted to point out that, while rare, I have seen some green-screen applications on the AS/400 (years ago, so I'm safe calling it that) which made use of custom field sequencing so that tabbing did not follow the "visual" order of input fields.
And, to be slightly more relevant (but still, I must stress, not making any argument in any direction about the behavior of RDi), there have been some GUI applications (some browser-based, some native Windows apps) which have confused me a little because tabbing moved the selector to a widget that either wasn't visible or that I didn't realize was input-capable.
John Y.
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