: Wide Screen Setup

[Mark Stewart]

You can write multiple page screens and insure
rollback integrity, commit, inherited transaction
functionality, etc. to force valid multiple page
entry/updates.  You can abbreviate labels and be
crafty with the Align statement to pull off any 80
char screen.  It might be a little more work but your
users won't be popping extra strength Tylenol all day
and cursing.  I agree with Kent, they should be
avoided if possible.

Imagine coding in 132 mode for 8 hours a day.

Mark Stewart
Consultants Club Corp.
Windsor, Ontario


--- Kent
HeHeatheringtonkekenteheatheringtonysympaticoa> wrote:
> 
> I built a Mat MgMgtystem for our Fed Jail system a
> few years ago, and I'll share my experience. They
> had a demand for goods
> form they had been using since WW2 and wanted the
> entry screen to look exactly like the form. You've
> all been there I'm sure.
> So I built the screen 132 which soon began to be
> referred to as the Squint Mode Screen.  They loved
> it.  Wow !
> The problem was they loved it so much from that
> moment on, the prprojgr wanted all the screens that
> way. He developed the
> theory that susubscreensere not a good thing. Why
> should we make the user go to other screens..
> 
> After about a year in production, Civil Servants
> started to book time off work with headaches.  The
> time off came to
> be known as CAMS time off.  They were getting
> headaches from looking at such a small font.  So the
> same prprojgr, decided
> rather than heed my plea for 'normal' screen design,
> he ordered a 19" monitor for any user who
> complained.
> 
> Now I share this info, to tell you sure, 132 mode
> screens work, and Reflections and KIKIAtermorked
> fine.
> But based on my experience I think they ought to be
> avoided if possible.
> 
> Kent HeHeatherington> PoPontouge Systems Inc.
> Fort CoCoulongeQuebec
> 
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