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Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: ISPF member list
In a recent note, Gary Green said:
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:38:31 -0400
Funny thing, I like this behavior. If one is manually
searching/looking-in
different members in the member list, it's a pain to scroll down a few
"lines" to get to the next member that is off-screen. With this
auto-scroll
of the selected member name to the top makes it so much easier...
OTOH, it's simply moronic that when the member list is small and
fits entirely on a single screen, and I browse the last member and
exit, the screen is scrolled so only one member shows. Such
automatic scrolling should never go farther than the effect of
"DOWN MAX".
And there you have the "tastes great", "less filling" argument that this
issue brings up. Back in the mid-90's we were having MAJOR problems trying
to debug member list scrolling issues because of inconsistent behavior
amongst all the different member lists. We decided to standardize on the
scrolling behavior because it fixed a major problem when processing lots of
members. Let's say you selected 100 out of 500 members to process. The
resulting member list would be at the top of the list and you would have to
scroll down a number of pages to take up where you left off. The problem
with handling all the exceptions (like single pages, etc.) is the
complications that it introduces to the member list code. We've tried to
streamline it to make it simple, but we've had to re-introduce the
non-intuitive behavior for those who only work with member lists on a single
screen. I won't even get into the complications if an error occurs while
you're processing multiple members.
It's not as easy as it seems. If you think you can do better, be my guest.
Fill out your SHARE requirements and then spend time with the ISPF
development team beta testing the prototypes. Can't wait to see what you
come up with.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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