Antiquated Software

[Tyler Style]

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I've not gotten into the GUI at all - can someone give me an idea of 
learning curve time, and will all my programs have to be altered in some 
fashion?  What headaches am I in for to give these guys their little 
mousies?  And will they still see my programs as "antiquated"?
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Linda Hapner


I've found that putting a web interface on the front end works wonders 
for getting people to say 'nifty!'.  HTML authoring is easy and fast 
with today's tools, too.  I tend to use fp just to generate data which 
is included with a webpage created in another app and then inject the 
data by replacing customer 'tags' in the webpage via a filepro process 
that reads in the html, replaces the tags with data, and then sends the 
html to the browser.  If you want to get fancy, you can use CSS to 
format the inject junk on the fly by varying class names in the 
injection process.  A little DHTML can be used to spice things up 
eye-candy-wise.

Depending on the volatility of the data you might want to parse the html 
every time a request is made (eg sales summary statistics or reports), 
or generate a static page every time someone updates a record on the 
main system that can be linked to without fpgi (eg, inventory parts 
numbers & descriptions).

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     Tyler Style, IT Operations Manager



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