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My client is currently using Access an wants the look and feel to be more
like a traditional terminal. Like the good old days of mainframe and
terminals.

Any suggestions?
 
You could try:

1. Get an old, large, TV and attach it to the back of his flat screen
monitor to create the right amount of bulk.
2. Change the monitor colour settings to black and white.
3. Take most of the PC's RAM out so it all slows down.
4. Loosen the wires in the wall-socket to give an intermitent power supply -
should give about the right amount of screen flicker.
5. Detach his mouse and make an overlay to fit his keyboard.
6. Set up a microwave cooker with a faulty seal alongside his workstation to
get the radiation levels up.

That should do it!

BW
 
Like they say, programming would be a great job if it weren't for the
clients/end users! This is really weird; we used to spend all kinds of time
and effort trying to make interfaces nicer looking!

There's a few thing you have to remember:


Well here's a start.

Pick a screen color; used to always be blue or green

Command Button background colors are controlled by Windows, not Access. So if
you don't want the old neutral beige button showing up, you'll have to use
the click property of a label or textbox instead.
The old "command buttons" were just white squares/rectangles usually arrayed
across the bottom of the screen.

Set to No the form's Scroll Bars, Navigation Buttons and Record Selector.
You'll have to place your own command buttons, as mentioned above.

In your form's Property Box set to NO:
Scroll Bars
Navigation Buttons
Record Selector
Minimum/Maximum Buttons
Close Button
Control Box

On your text boxes set:

Background color to same as screen color
Forecolors to a color lighter than your screen color
Border Style = Transparent
Special Effect = Flat

Don't know how to get rid of the Title Bar. Maybe somewhat else here knows.
If you can't get rid of it, it's going to hang there and like the native
command buttons, it's color is going to be dictated by the settings in
Windows, not Access.

Good luck!
 
Now this is fun.

I'll most likely implement some and not try to match it exactly. Instinct is
telling me that the true issue is that they are jumping around from screen to
screen and not sure where they are at and want to the world to stop changing.

I watched as they closed the active window and were not able to find it
again. Only to start clicking around in other forms and making a mess of the
screen. Not to mention switching to tables in the interface.

I believe they liked the control the older interfaces would lend them and
protect them from themselves.

Maybe I should just put a bullet in a gun and give them that to play around
with...
 
Not a bad idea, but it might decrease your revenue for the year! They're
obviously obviously stuck in WOD, the World of DOS! It always amazes me to
see how many companies still exist on DOS based software! Of course, in some
ways they're right; if you have a DOS based app that you've been using for
years, and it still works, why change it? The biggest problem old DOS based
software is running into is that parallel port printers are getting harder
and harder to find and DOS programs all send output to LPT-1, not USB ports.

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There's ALWAYS more than one way to skin a cat!

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