Re: WEB5250

Hello Pete


Pete Helgren wrote:
> It is mostly your work Kenneth.  The idea I have for it is to resolves 
> some of the remaining issues regarding the use of keys and 
> particularly navigation with cursor movement keys, which is common in 
> 5250 but rare in HTML.  Where I saw the biggest issues was in text 
> editing, like using SEU.  Made it a challenge to navigate.
I really can not remember us ever getting it that far.  Either way I 
still think you did a great job and it looks really slick.

I do remember a few issues with navigation and cursor keys.

>
> If I went with JSON and a small JS library at the browser to do the 
> rendering, then we might have a GUI and a non-GUI mode where you could 
> choose to either render the entire 5250 screen or just send the field 
> references and keystrokes.  The latter method could be used to enter 
> and retrieve data from a 5250 program using AJAX "behind the scenes" 
> without a traditional 5250 front end.  You could "modernize" a 5250 
> application by using JSON/AJAX behind a browser app.  Might be useful.
>
Oh yeah, I remember now, that was the intent of starting the web5250 to 
begin with.  What we could not figure out at the time was a 
modernization of the screens using the javascript and a technology like 
ajax did not exist at that time.  That could be an interesting project.
> Anyway, I HOPE to have some time in the future to check it out and do 
> some experimenting and prototyping.  Right now I am too busy to do 
> much more than give it an occasional "think".
hahaha I know exactly what you mean.
>
> Pete
>
> kjpou wrote:
>> Pete
>>
>> That is sweet.  Did not get to play with it too much but nice going.
>>
>> kjpou wrote:
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>>> That would work well if it was an applet but when we put it together it 
>>> was straight 5250 stream translation to html and javascript.  Pete it is 
>>> not an applet now is it?  I guess I need to go out to the site and see.
>>>
>>> I have enjoyed the JQuery interface with AJAX.  Never really took a look 
>>> at GWT after working with that one.  Guess I just became used to the 
>>> JQuery and never looked at any of the others.
>>>
>>> Jack Woehr wrote:
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>>>> kjpou wrote:
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>>>>> Ahhhh.  Took me a cup of coffee to get the ole brain cells firing but I 
>>>>> think you mean Google Web Toolkit right?
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>>>> Yeah, I meant if the applet was giving Pete a pain he could play around
>>>> with GWT. Which is also a pain, but in a different way :)
>>>>
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