Re: Re-sizing programs to fit handheld devices.

["Ron Adams" <rondadams@xxxxxxxxx>]

It depends on how the application was written. If the screens aren't
too busy, and you have some fields that can be defaulted, you might be
able to create an alternate screen where the fields are better aligned
and remove the unneeded fields to fit your terminals, then using
OVRDSPF and a wrapper program to redirect the scanner users to the
alternate screens, it could be done. You could set up the scanners
with a specific naming convention like RFxx, or SCNxx, then have the
wrapper program do it's work if the device was named appropriately, or
you could set up a table of names/users and only call the wrapper when
  one of these hit.

I've done this for both smaller screens for scanners, and to restrict
fields from being seen by the user. Recently, I wrote something like
this with our sales order entry program to restrict certain users from
seeing/touching certain fields.


Ron Adams

On Dec 12, 2007 11:50 AM, Don Cavaiani <dcavaiani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Generally speaking, how much of a pain is it to get an Existing or Modified green screen program "sized" to fit efficiently on mobile handheld devices/scanners?
>
> Or, is it better to redo from scratch and use the Browser functionality?
>
> TIA,
> Don
>
> Don F. Cavaiani
> IT Manager
> Amerequip Corp.
> 920-894-7063
>
> "It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."  Harry S. Truman