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MM-xxxxvi     Tuesday

2000-02-15

Tonk, we got 8°C, positive, this morning. Someone is really confused up there, minus two yesterday, plus eight today. The weather gods are playing yo-yo. And it rains (same as yesterday evening?) until noon.

Theo stays home today, but he keeps working. Well he does handle and forward some mails from America, so I assume he is not taking a day off. One of these mails is about the new interface proposal for the order line entry. The Americans want to add lots of extra information. That will of course kill all the performance gain we made and it makes the function far less intuitive.
The intention was to present a fast order entry display where the user could almost blindly enter order lines. Only two fields had to be entered (item and quantity) all displayed information came from one file (=instant display) with only two buttons, Entry (default) and Cancel.
The American proposal has 9 entry fields, with quantity and item not adjacent and not at the top (and quantity before the item!), and 7 buttons. The information to be displayed has to be retreived from different files (3 or 4 depending on the situation). The result will be confusing and slow. But how do we convince them that they don't really want this? We collected some arguments but the discussion will not be simple. Especially Pieter will not agree with us, but then he is prone to disagree with everybody. Principally.

I dug up some additional programs that relate to the DR/II problem and started solving them.

Adios