Re: HATS Best Practices

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We used menu buttons for the menu items themselves although I have been 
thinking about moving the menus to a left-hand frame and have the 
programs run in a center frame.  As I get more experienced with the 
components and widgets, I get more ideas and how best to use them.

I haven't played with the web services piece yet.  I have sat in on two, 
instructor led, live web-based trainings on HATS.  Both added to my 
knowledge but sitting in a classroom where you can ask questions easily 
and have the instructor sit down and work with you would be better. 

My biggest problem so far is that I have "prompt" window that doesn't 
transform correctly.  I had to make all kinds of changes to get it to 
work right and it still doesn't work like I want it to.  I'd like to 
build a custom dialog component but, again, the documentation is thin 
and I haven't solved it (yet).

There is a new version coming out this year, perhaps this quarter.  It 
will be interesting to see what the improvements are.

Pete