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

[John Esak]

> > at the very least enter a special command just to get at
> something that
> > > should be just as easily accessible at 0-9.
> >
> > Because they were added on afterwards.  :-)
>
> By that logic, with 5.6, if you want to access an automatic index past R,
> one of the new ones, you should have to nave a special command line flag
> specifying anything in the range of Q-Z, not be able to just type it in
> whenever an index selection is called for.  And boy, I bet people would
> scream over that.


No, absolutely specious logic on your part... you can't say "By that
logic..." and then point to something *completely* different than what is
being talked about. The screens 0-9 are reached a certain way. The indexes
A-Z are reached by a certain way. It is screens that are "supposed" to only
be reached through processing which we are talking about. I would not want
users in 99% of my applications being able to choose screens I didn't
speicifically bring them to.  And, niether would you. Imagine writing
something in C and it has 27 screens, would you want to display all 27
screens as they enter your app, just because they are there? No, of course
not. The same is true of filePro, there are times when you want the user to
have instant access... if 10 screens aren't enough for this, you can mimic
that mechanism a hundred different ways as for example the ways Brian
mentioned.  You want a sub-level screen for debugging... just build it in.
No need to go through all the bewailing that only 10 screens are instantly
available to the user without programming. This was a really *good* design
decision, not any kind of arrangement that limits anyone at all. You are
only saying you feel limited because some other programs allow access to all
the screens, like Define Screens. To use your statement... Ahem... "By that
logic, you should be giving your application users full acces to all the
uncompiled code when they enter the program... Obviously, not a good idea.

JE