> Apropos the recent discussion on GUIs versus terminal-mode interfaces, I had this discussion on the German list resmedicinae-deutsch where German doctors interested in Res Medicinae and GnuMed hang about. The general tenor was that, yes, GUIs look nice but TUIs are often more efficient.
> some very thoughtful and thought-provoking notes (complete with > screenshot examples) by Richard Terry on GUI design for medical record > systems can be found at http://gnumed.net/rterry/Index.htm > > The influence of these ideas on the GnuMed screen design can be judged > here: http://www.gnumed.org/screenshots.html There are two things I (we) hope to address re text mode: Find someone to connect wxWindows to Turbo Vision so we have a widget-rich text mode user interface (Turbo Vision is the text widget library by Borland, the makers of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++ and Delphi. It is now open source and has been ported to Linux). Another option would be to connect wxWindows/Universal to ncurses. This way we could run our current client on text terminals, too. The other tentative plan is to produce a separate text mode client specifically tailored for (perhaps monochrome) text mode terminal (emulations). Anyone interested in coding or coordinating with/organising a coder ? (The wxWindows -> Turbo Vision port would be of tremendous general use and acclaim, BTW.) Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
