Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

[Lou Forlini <lforlini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:25 PM -0500 4/28/06, Booth Martin wrote:
> I can not believe the amount of resistance I have gotten from trying to
> implement scroll bars on green screen subfiles.  The scroll bar works
> pretty good, and sure save a lot of lines of code devoted to "position
> to" screens.  I know that not all subfiles can be load-all, but gosh, a
> huge percentage of the subfiles in use today have way less than 2500
> records (the practical limit for a scrollbar subfile), and the coding
> for a load_all subfile is all most cookie cutter code.
>
> (For those that have never seen a green screen scroll bar, I offer these
> links:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/kczww
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/kjsno

   Except what's better when you're trying to find a certain section 
of a list - typing an 'M' to get right to the start of where you 
want, or dragging the scroll bar to... let's see 'M' should be just 
about here... oops it's not.  I don't know about Windows, but Mac OS 
X will let you type in letters to position a file list.  It's very 
handy, and you don't have to play "guess where I am in the list".

   Now once you get to the general area, scroll bars can be handy. 
But I would think that the Page Up/Down keys might do just as well.

   Regards,

   - Lou Forlini
     Software Engineer
     System Support Products, Inc.