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09/02/2011 16:52:14
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01499365
Message ID:
01499476
Views:
65
>Hi.
>Just wondering what has become the standard in APPS .
>In VFP. most of our users woud use the Enter Key, but Tab seems to be the default in Dot Net.
>
>Most of our users are Heads Down using the Numeric Keyboard , and if they were to use the Tab, they would need three hands (assunimg Right Handed)....
>...one they use for entering numbers using Numeric Keypad
>... one they use for flicking the data entry pages
>... one for the Tab Key, which is over on the LHS of keyboard,

Stay with Enter, lest your users grow a third hand. Two for data ENTRY, third to slap you for trying to introduce the tab.

I've seen a guy enter about 500 invoices in two hours, with an average of 4-5 line items (a 7 digit code plus the quantity), so that's 5000 numbers - 5000 quick movements over the numeric keyboard, each followed by the pinky on the Enter key, followed by a move of the finger on the paper one line down.

Whoever invented data TABby, is a moron who never saw these guys work, or a callous grumpy dark creature who has but doesn't care.

back to same old

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