The future of filePro... one major one anyway!

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At Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:54:32PM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Kenneth Brody was observed uttering:
> My point was that I thought it was a good thing.  The website isn't
> worded along the lines of "Reface is for guifying filePro", but for
> so-called "legacy applications" in general, and it was nice to see
> filePro being used as the example.

I'm actually sitting here thinking, "Hmmm...semi-admin stuff that people
don't tend to know inside-out but still try to use.  What about 'top'?  The
normal display is one thing, but if you can then put the buttons for
re-sorting on there by the various criterion..."  I'm not sure how well
that falls under the screens can't change thing, but it does have a
standard layout on top, it's just the middle section is variable.  But if
it can handle a browse lookup in an overlay, top should be doable.

So suddenly top as a tool becomes more accessible to the mid-range user
because you can have buttons and such without memorising keystrokes,
checking the help screen, etc.  Heck, buttons?  I wonder if it's complex
enough to have those tab/cell type things across and be able to treat them
as buttons so you could do a re-sort as one traditionally does in windows.
If they thought of as much as they seem to have, quite possibly.

Which actually brings up an interesting idea in terms of fP again...once
you come up with the chain of thought and backreference.  What about browse
lookups that, if you -could- have cell-based sorting with the labels as
sort indicators, basically it's programmed to pushkey the right stuff to
bring up a re-sorted browse lookup based on a different sorting...same
info, different browse lookups sorted differntly.  But you're doing it
like you'd do in Excel or whatever and it's totally transparent.  Just a
thought...  I bet people would fall over themselves scrambling for that
kind of functionality.

This kinda thing certainly makes one think of a lot of possibilities...

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