Re: Looking for like-minded programmers who use the enhanced features of 5250

In iACS, the mouse wheel does paging. iAccess allows you to turn F-keys into buttons. I've seen thin clients with integrated 5250 emulators that turns menu options into pseudo-links (mouse-over does reverse-image and click executes).


"Isn't it time we acknowledged this in our green screen applications? "

No



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From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2018 2:54 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Looking for like-minded programmers who use the enhanced features of 5250

I would like to compare notes with other programmers who use, or want to
use, the enhanced 5250 features like scroll bars, push buttons, radio
buttons, check boxes, and MOUBTN().

The user-base today is unused to F-keys. They are used to mouse clicks
and the mouse wheel. Isn't it time we acknowledged this in our green
screen applications? Shouldn't turning the mouse wheel scroll a sub
file? Shouldn't a mouse click open a drop down box of available & valid
choices?

I am not particularly interested in lectures on the purity of the 1980s
and F-keys and why it is important to teach users that F21 is
shift-F-something and that the only way to close a program is with F-3.
Except sometimes when we use F-12.