You can go to many mom and pop stores that use computers, automobile repair shops, as well as the biggest national department stores here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have yet to see one that did not have a DOS based GUI!




>>Not only that, but many times you can only make your GUI as effective as the customer will allow. You can design an impressive GUI and the customer may want a 'dos-based appearance.' I've had apps with dual type GUIs and each user chose the design they wanted to use. Sometimes they want it to look like something else they saw even when that design may not be as efficient. I can't count the number of times a customer has insisted on a different appearance or approach based on any number of things. It's all about pleasing the customer in the end.
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>I've taking over some FPD application in 1995 or so, with a typical DOS GUI. It seems very ancient to us as developers, but everytime I visit the shop I wrote it for I'm amazed with how well they are getting along with the application: They only need the mouse to start the application, the rest is keyboard only.
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>Again as I said before in this thread: Impressive GUIs <> effective GUIs
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>>>>>Again, I'm not going to say that .NET is not superiour in this respect, however I've never had any idea that my GUIs are less effective or impressive than the .NET applications I've seen.
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>>>>I can always say the same thing that is, if I don't do .NET. Try it first. Build .NET apps and afterwards, come back to me if you could say the same thing.
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>>>The problem is that, is that I've not seen your GUI and you don't have seen my GUI therefore any discussion on this is useless. I might be well more seasoned in writing effictive GUIs in VFP then you were, and you might have a different view on effictive GUIs. Therefore any agreements on absolutes are impossible to make.
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>>>Again, bottom line, from my perspective I don't see the superiourity of .NET controls making a significance difference in effetive GUIs. Now from anyone elses perspective that might be totally different depeding on her/his skills and experience in the tool, but also their definition of what constitutes an effective GUI.
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>>>Walter,