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Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access?

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"Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal@msn.com> wrote in
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> In fact the same much goes for any other type of pick list etc.,
> and you really cannot afford to have the user have to type much
> with these types of devices. In fact holding an iPad and
> attempting to type on it is near impossible. So if you cannot make
> most of the task an easy touch affair then the whole project will
> become a failure. You must reduce and attempt to build forms that
> are 100% choice based and not need typing. 
> 
> And if you going to use Access, then you have to forgo most of the
> gesture and motion based UI tweaks that these new touch systems
> have. I do admit they are really nice.
> 
> So, you can still optimize your applications quite well despite
> not having some of those new controls.

If they can't type, then it's a read-only application, right? This
seems to me that it would make many Access applications completely
inappropriate for use on these devices. Or, at least, only a small
part of the functionality would be appropriate for use through these
devices. That seems to me to indicate that you'd need two different
UIs, one for your read-only users (optimized for portable devices
like iPad and smartphones) and the other for the people who do the
actual work in the database (i.e., entering data; and, yes, I mean
to be pejorative there). Seems to me the natural separation would be
to implement as web forms the UI for the mobile device users, and
use regular client forms for the desktop users. Naturally, anything
that would be usable by both sets of users would be implemented as
web forms. 

Thoughts?

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Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? TC <existential.philosophy@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 17:56 -0700
  Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? "Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal@msn.com> - 2011-04-06 03:50 -0600
    Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? TC <existential.philosophy@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 08:33 -0700
    Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? "David-W-Fenton" <NoEmail@SeeSignature.invalid> - 2011-04-06 17:21 +0000
    Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? "David-W-Fenton" <NoEmail@SeeSignature.invalid> - 2011-04-06 17:25 +0000
      Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? TC <existential.philosophy@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 12:51 -0700
        Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? The Frog <mr.frog.to.you@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-07 00:29 -0700
          Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? "David-W-Fenton" <NoEmail@SeeSignature.invalid> - 2011-04-09 21:23 +0000
        Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? "Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal@msn.com> - 2011-04-08 11:14 -0600
          Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? "David-W-Fenton" <NoEmail@SeeSignature.invalid> - 2011-04-09 21:25 +0000
      Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? "Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal@msn.com> - 2011-04-08 11:11 -0600
      Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? "Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal@msn.com> - 2011-04-08 11:11 -0600
  Re: Are There Good Touch Screen Controls for Access? "James A. Fortune" <CDMAPoster@FortuneJames.com> - 2011-04-06 20:53 -0700

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