Anzio for the Iphone...

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008, Walter Vaughan wrote:
>John Esak wrote:
>
>>Anyway, he, of course, still uses filePro... and he has been dabbling in
>>some kind of something that lets him at least *see* a filePro screen.  I
>>think he said something like has a DELETE... but no ESCAPE key yet.  :-)
>>
>>Any thoughts to porting Anzio to the Iphone?  
>>
>What tool works best for using a mouse with filepro?.
>A client that you can jump from field to field, make menu and listbox
>choices from a mouse click would
>be the best place to start.
>
>Biggest challenge is that the UI for filePro is that is is not a
>windowing app with random
>event driven interfaces.

That may be considered a challenge, but I consider it a feature as the
FilePro way is far more efficient for people doing serious heads-down data
entry.  FP has the ability to define tab stops where one can jump to major
data groups quickly as well.

The office manager/legal secretary at the law firm where we installed our
first mission-critical Linux system in Sept 1997 complained that here
productivity dropped 50% when the firm required they use MS-Word instead of
WordPerfect.  WP rarely required one to move fingers from the home keys
while MS-Word did.

Mousey, event-driven interfaces are great for many things, but doing high-
volume data entry isn't one of them.  They are useful for updating existing
data by less skilled people (e.g. Managers :-) and where one often changes
a very few data entries in a random manner.

Bill
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