User Login
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_Startup_small.gif)
Access set by user's VMS
login. |
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_StartUp_small.gif)
Auto-selection of database,
Username defaults
from Windows
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Menus & Shortcuts
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_menus_small.gif)
Location in Menu displayed,
user must navigate away. |
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_Menus_small.gif)
Windows menus
cascading at each
menu level.
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_shortcuts_small.gif)
User-selected, categorized shortcuts speed menu
selection.
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Screen Headings
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CorVision put headings
at the top
![](BeforeAfterImages/B_Headings_small.gif)
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![](BeforeAfterImages/A_Headings_small.gif)
CV2VB Relocates them to a
Windows Status Bar
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Key Windows
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_Keywindow_small.gif)
Awkward key choice, no grid
printing, fixed column order and widths. |
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_Keywindow_small.gif)
Screen and grid printing,
tabbed key choices, settable column order and widths.
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Form Resizing
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Dependant on terminal emulator, all screens are the same
size/color/font for the whole application. |
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_Resizer.gif)
Vertical & Horizontal
Resizing - unique sizes for each
form and window.
Saved
uniquely by user name outside the registry
(User settings follow them to any PC they use)
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Date Entry
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_DateEntry_small.gif)
Relaxed year entry, format
choice. |
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_DateEntry_small.gif)
Editable month, day, year,
or drop down Date-Picker Calendar.
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Permitted Values
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_CodeEntry_small.gif)
Permitted values and
meanings are invisible unless added to the field label. |
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_CodeEntry_small.gif)
CorVision permitted values
convert to Windows
drop-down lists. |
Yes/No Entry
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_YesNoEntry_small.gif)
User enters Y or N
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![](BeforeAfterImages/A_YesNoEntry_small.gif)
Required YES/NO fields
convert to check boxes.
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Lookup Windows
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_LookUpWindow_small.gif)
Lookup on one key,
developer's choice.
No format control. Hard to move.
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![](BeforeAfterImages/A_LookUpWindow_small.gif)
Lookup on any key,
user's choice.
User-controlled format.
Window easily moved.
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Grids/Groups
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_Grids_small.gif)
No horizontal scroll,
no row colors,
scrolling area not printable,
can't copy to other apps.
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![](BeforeAfterImages/A_Grids_small.gif)
Easy to read,
Horizontal scroll,
User-settable column widths,
Printable scrolling area.
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_GridCopy_small.gif)
Copy Grid to clipboard for paste into Excel or other
applications.
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Batch & Reports
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CorVision applications
depended on VMS batch processing and printing services.
Parameters were passed via 'terminal datasets'. |
CV2VB
provides a batch queuing system and report archive and
distribution system.
Parameters are passed
via XML messages. |
HELP!
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_Help_small.gif) |
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_Help1_small.gif)
Form Level or Field Level
HELP is available.
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_Help2_small.gif)
HELP is generated from application
specifications, adding developer and documenter
annotations
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_Help3_small.gif)
HELP has clickable links to follow and is
organized by the application's menu.
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_Help4_small.gif)
Field-level HELP shows all business rules
for the field on the specific form.
NOTE: HELP
generation is part of the CV2VB toolset.
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"Accept, Reject or Edit?"
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_AcceptRejectEdit_small.gif)
Accept or Reject selected by function key or window
choice. Navigation choices controlled by data.
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![](BeforeAfterImages/A_AcceptRejectEdit1_small.gif)
Accept or Reject selected by function key, button
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_AcceptRejectEdit2_small.gif)
Navigation choices
controlled by data.
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Visual queues for
Non-enterable fields
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_DerivedFields_small.gif)
User's couldn't tell if a
field was enterable or not - until they tried to get to
it.
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![](BeforeAfterImages/A_DerivedFields_small.gif)
Non-enterable fields are
dynamically grayed.
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Screen Printing
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CorVision didn't provide screen printing.
User's could print the screen image, but not all of the
scrolling regions.
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![](BeforeAfterImages/A_ScreenPrint1_small.gif)
Click for a quick Screen
Print
![](BeforeAfterImages/A_ScreenPrint2_small.gif)
Print the visible screen,
all rows from scrolling region(s), or both.
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QUERY
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![](BeforeAfterImages/B_Query_small.gif)
CorVision's End-user QUERY
was easy to use and popular at many sites.
Users' Query specs were stored in an undecipherable
format.
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![](BeforeAfterImages/A_Query_small.gif)
A QUERY Form is part of the
CV2VB-converted application, and all your queries from QUERY.DAT are converted and available. |
Function Keys
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CorVision allowed you to define custom function keys by
customizing the MACRO-32 source for VT200AF.MAR
These keys had no visual
equivalent.
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![](BeforeAfterImages/A_FunctionKeys_small.gif)
Function keys are easy to add to the application and
display in a toolbar. |