Desperate plea to FP Tech...

[GCC Consulting]

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> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Boaz Bezborodko
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:29 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Desperate plea to FP Tech...
> 
> John mentioned scrolling fields.  Not having them is, I 
> think, one of the key reasons why more screen space is 
> needed.  For example, if I simply want to add an 
> e-mail-contact field to a customer screen I have to take up 
> quite a bit of screen space to accommodate how long an e-mail 
> address MIGHT be even though most of them don't even come 
> close.  But most people don't need to see the whole e-mail 
> address and even those that do rarely have to.
> 
> The only problem I can see with scrolling fields is that in 
> many instances you would still want some way to highlight all 
> the text for cut and pasting.  Since Filepro doesn't handle a 
> mouse like a GUI would you can't just click over the entire 
> contents.  You could still code a popup with the full 
> contents, but now you are adding the necessity of development 
> time.  So this may be a little more complex than it seems at first.

Not if the popup was pre-programmed into fp's scrolling field( when/if
added).

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting