Daniel McCarty wrote:
> given your (amazingly difficult) scenario. (Smart bombs take out
> conduit source code?! ;)
I don't know if it's really so difficult or unrealistic. This scenario
may come up a lot for "enterprise" applications developed to connect
with large existing back-end legacy systems, and which for various
reasons try to work reasonably similar to the legacy desktop interface.
And for even more various reasons not limited to smart bombs, modifying
the database back end may not be possible.
In the census scenario, the decades old system may be a green screen
terminal app where clerks type in the mailed-in forms, where the screen
blocks the user from proceeding until all the required fields are filled
in. The individual fields may even block the user from tabbing to the
next field until filled in, and all of this works fine on a single task
application like that. The database server may have no logic for
handling a missing or "00000" ZIP code because the interface has never
previously permitted such data to even reach the server.
Unfortunately when trying to implement a Palm front end for this, these
data entry issues become inelegant, which is what I'm getting at.
-slj-
