Kbase 21393: How To Design Your Application to Fit Small Screen Terminals
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
10/16/2008 |
|
Status: Verified
GOAL:
How To Design Your Application to Fit Small Screen Terminals
FACT(s) (Environment):
Unix
FIX:
For small screen applications, it is recommended that you design your applications in such a way that they use only the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, which is the one that the small hand-held terminal screen is going to make visible.
Be aware of the cursor positioning issues when the terminal does not support Cursor on/off (CF/CN). It is very easy to get around this issue by modifying the position of the frame, designing your screens as below:
(0,0)
+--------------------+
| |
| |
| |
| |
| +--------+
| | |
| | | <--- only use this area
| | |
+-----------+--------+
(24,80)
Progress works very well on small screen terminals. We see these issues as a design consideration.