Screen refresh

[Kenneth Brody]

On 7/1/2011 10:53 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
[...]
>>> I was at a client's site today and I was asked to watch an order clerk
> while
>> she was entering orders.
>>>
>>> What was happening was no field information was being displayed. This is
>> both values entered or looked up information. All data entered is
> numerical
>> and is entered from the mimetic keypad. This is order details entered from
>> the header. All of the details are posted.
[...]
> The above is only occurring during order entry.  All other filepro screen
> displays are correct.
>
>>
>> Any time filePro needs to wait for user input, it will force a screen
> refresh,
>> even if you have used VIDEO OFF in processing.  So, unless the user is
> typing
>> so quickly that she is keeping ahead of filePro, I have no idea why the
> screen
>> wouldn't be updated.

Quick experiment...

During data entry, when the screen isn't being refreshed, have her stop 
typing.  Does the screen refresh at that point?

-- 
Kenneth Brody