"Jason M. Felice" wrote:
> There's one last option (this is for WAY long-term future). I've seen it in
> another emulator but I forget who made it. It has enough logic to be able to
> keep track of which screens you've been to and you can bookmark a screen and
> return to it from any other screen by clicking on the bookmark. This also
> has the ability to start from any screen on the system. This emulator also
> has the ability to use DDE or OLE to include active 400 data into another
> document using screen scraping (cut, then paste special in Excel). Opening
> the Excel document automagically opens a hidden copy of the emulator, goes to
> that screen, re-scrapes it, and pops it into the document.
>
These features were presented in a product called New Look (or LANSA, I may be
confusing company and product). I saw a demo at our software providor's users
group last fall. Of course, I think it only worked on that OS from Redmond...
They were supposed to send info but never did, so I don't really know much about
it. I remember you were no longer "trapped" into the screens designed by your
existing programs. Everything could be customized, including the signon screen to
give it all a PC/GUI look and feel. It alllowed the creation of display fields
that didn't exist - even calculations from other fields to build it. I didn't get
a chance to play with any configuration, and the demo wasn't very good. The
product looked pretty slick though.
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