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- From: berend@contrast.wlink.nl (Berend de Boer)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Turbo Vision Keys?
- Message-ID: <724675113.AA00819@contrast.wlink.nl>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:06:54
- Sender: postmaster@contrast.wlink.nl
- Lines: 45
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- Dean Davidson wrote in a message to All:
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- DD> I also prefer to use the ENTER to move to the next field.
- DD> My user interface routines that I use, incorporate this
- DD> feature.
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- DD> You mention the CUA standard.
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- DD> What is this? Where is it used? How widely is it used?
-
- What are they, you can better say. There are three CUA's, the last
- depending on the previous. The CUA87, CUA89 and the CUA91 Standard. CUA
- stands for Common User Acces, defined by IBM.
- CUA87 was directed to computer independence. A 3270 should behave like
- your IBM PC. Let's take for example the ENTER and TAB key. When running
- a 3270 emulator on our LAN connected to a CICS mainframe, the TAB moves
- to the next field, ENTER accepts the screen. Just like your TVision
- programs (if you follow standard behaviour).
- CUA89 was graphical oriented. Menubars, dialogboxes etc. were defined.
- TVision follows CUA89.
- CUA91 is the Workplace Model. Look for OS/2 to see how this works. You
- are working with objects, moving, dragging them and applying operations
- on them. In my opinion CUA91 cannot be implemented in character mode
- TVision. You need graphics, icons etc.
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- DD> I'm all for using a standard user interface, but I was not
- DD> aware that any standard existed.
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- CUA is used by all (almost) IBM programs, Windows, TVision and lots of
- other programs.
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- DD> More information would be appreciated on the CUA standard,
- DD> or any other standards that do exist.
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- Maybe this will help you. If you need the exact references to the CUA??
- document, send me a email and I will look them up.
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-
- Groetjes,
-
- Berend. (-:
- fido: 2:281/527.23
- email: berend@contrast.wlink.nl
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