screens other than 0-9 (was: Re: Windows 2003/IIS 6 issues...newand improved ones.)

[Transpower]

Mark:  Just make a hotkey for the user to press on a numbered screen to 
get to an unnumbered screen.

Regards,
Ron Satz
Transpower Corporation
www.transpowercorp.com
Commercial and Custom Software Manufacturing and Certified Systems 
Engineering Since 1976

Fairlight wrote on 5/24/2007, 9:51 AM:

 > This public service announcement was brought to you by John Esak:
 > > Why do you feel it is an oversight?  If you can't get to the screens
 > with a
 > > keystroke from the IUA screen listbox, why show them?
 >
 > Because they're actually there and meant to be used.
 >
 > Let's say, for the sake of argument, I had used 0-9 already, and I needed
 > more.  Let's say I had special-purpose ones that had a lower priority
 > than
 > 0-9, but still needed to use it (like a "debug" screen).
 >
 > Why, when entering IUA, should I be any less able to select a screen
 > named
 > "debug" or "fairlight_only" or whatever it is, than 0-9?  They're still
 > valid screens.  I can create and select them from dscreen, and dscreen
 > has
 > no problems showing that they exist.
 >
 > I'm forced to wonder why I should have to create a special menu
 > option, or
 > at the very least enter a special command just to get at something that
 > should be just as easily accessible at 0-9.
 >
 > I'm really not seeing the linkage between being able to access it via
 > keystroke in *clerk and being able to access it from a listbox when
 > starting out.  You can't access any reports with a keystroke in report,
 > processing tables in cabe, etc.  But they're selectable when you
 > supply no
 > input.
 >
 > It's a matter of primarily ease of access.  Secondarily, it's a matter of
 > product inconsistency across the breadth of the product.  I really don't
 > care about the latter, but I do care about the former.  I -really- should
 > be able to just hit B for IUA in runmenu, select my table, and select my
 > screen--no arbitrary limitations.  To me, this seems like refusing to
 > list
 > all tables in ddefine for some arbitrary reason.  Speaking of which,
 > ddefine has the exact opposite problem.  Try just touching "test.txt" in
 > your PFDIR once.  Run ddefine and see it show up in the listbox of
 > "databases"...even though it's clearly not anything of the sort.  I just
 > tested it and it's never been fixed.  (I know people that [strangely]
 > like
 > to store tarball files in there...that's how I discovered it does that.)
 >
 > But my primary gripe is lack of quick and easy access to the screen.  I
 > shouldn't have to jump out of runmenu or make a special menu to do this.
 > I don't honestly care that I can't hit one key in clerk and bring up the
 > screen.  What I care about is ease of launching it regularly from runmenu
 > without special consideration, and being able to select it just as I
 > would
 > any other option not pre-specified.  I defined it, I intend to use it, I
 > don't see a need for an arbitrary rule telling me I can't get there from
 > here unless I take a detour through Timbuktu.
 >
 > mark->
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