Both are horrible solutions

Multiple screens means no DRY. You have to change things all over the place, greatly increasing costs and time.
CSS Selectors are pretty bad. They have horrible performance in the browser.

Again, rewrite is a better solution. And also again... most developer teams go about rewrite the wrong way which increases costs.

>Hi Thomas,
>
>I hope I understand what your mean, not very sure though ... [I understand DRY as "Don't Repeat Yourself"]
>
>>That was our take as well. While the introduced changes in the code were easy to understand, they were numerous ***and*** un-DRY, which ***is*** expected from a machine generated process.
>
>do you mean that the same adaptation may occur at different places in the application? yes of course
>
>>At latest at the point where some of the forms would have to be redesigned for small screened devices, additional code would follow - and then following the trails of machine assisted code droppings would lead to more maintainance due to introduced non-DRY-ness ;-))
>
>redesigned for small screened devices: not necessarily - you have several options:
>
>1/ you can save a .scx as a class from which you can derive several *.scx for each resolution; as each FiC request comes with browser's viewPortWidth and viewPortHeight as form properties, you can decide which form you'll send to your user:
>

>thisForm.wForm(iCase(;
>  between(thisForm.wViewPortWidth, w1, w2) and between(thisForm.wViewPortHeight, h1, h2),;
>    'form1.scx',;
>  between(thisForm.wViewPortWidth, w3, w4) and between(thisForm.wViewPortHeight, h3, h4),;
>    'form2.scx',;
>    'form3.scx';
>), other parameters)
>

>
>Notes:
>- this solution will work exactly the same in desktop and web mode.
>- all your code is in the parent form class - NO DRY
>
>2/ you can keep a single source form and take advantage of CSS3 @display directive to adapt the layout to the client display (sample CSS distributed with FoxInCloud Application Server):
>

>  @media screen  and (orientation: landscape) and (min-width:569px){ /* desktop = iPhone < 5 + 300 */
>    
>    #ecran_3_scx {width:780px; }
>
>    #ecran_3_scx-myavatar_  {left:665px!important}
>    #ecran_3_scx-democntbas {left:665px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-logoff {left:740px; }
>
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage {width:770px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage-demolbllinespage {left:653px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage-mycbolinespage {left:704px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage-mynavq {left:645px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage .aw-grid-control {width:630px!important; }
>  }
>
>  @media screen  and (orientation: landscape) and (max-width:568px){ /* iPhone 5+ = iPhone < 5 + 88  */
>    #ecran_3_scx {width:568px; }
>
>    #ecran_3_scx-myavatar_  {left:453px!important}
>    #ecran_3_scx-democntbas {left:453px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-logoff {left:518px; }
>
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage {width:558px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage-demolbllinespage {left:441px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage-mycbolinespage {left:492px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage-mynavq {left:433px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage .aw-grid-control {width:420px!important; }
>  }
>
>  @media screen  and (orientation: landscape) and (max-width:480px){ /* iPhone < 5 */
>    #ecran_3_scx {width:480px; }
>
>    #ecran_3_scx-logoff {left:430px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-myavatar_  {left:365px!important}
>    #ecran_3_scx-democntbas {left:365px; }
>
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage {width:470px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage-demolbllinespage {left:353px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage-mycbolinespage {left:404px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage-mynavq {left:345px; }
>    #ecran_3_scx-mycntgrdpage .aw-grid-control {width:333px!important; }
>  }
>

>
>Notes:
>- you get the CSS selectors (eg '#ecran_3_scx-logoff {left:518px; }') by a simple copy-paste from the FiC-generated CSS - you just need to adjust the value (eg '518px;') to whatever you need
>- You can even edit these values in the browser dev tools connected to your handheld device (eg Safari connected to an iPhone/iPad), visually adjust, copy and paste into your CSS file, reload the source CSS, etc.