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Point of Sale(POS) Desktop application Conversion to In.De

Postby Renoir » 13 April 2013, 23:50

I'm still in the process of learning In.De and I am sure that there are lots of things that I am not sure to do in In.de until I have completed your tutorials and documentations. Based on what I tried on the examples and demos in In.De, I can see that the user interface is really a browser Interface, which is very different from a desktop UI, I am a bit worried because in a desktop POS application, mouse interaction is strongly discouraged, and one of the things to consider in a POS application is speed in entering sales and getting payments. In the desktop application that I built using VB6 and MSaccess I just scan a barcode and set quantity and the total is displayed and press F12 to check out and inventories are updated, if the item has no barcode then on the same search field area I just type the item name and items pops up for me to select, set quantity and press F12 again, that simple. to suspend the current transaction just in case a customer forgets his/her money then I press F5 then another transaction is again ready for the next customer...if the customer comes back to pay then I just press F6 to retrieve the suspended transaction and press F12 to enter payments. The payments are all in cash or check, but I am planning to use In.de in the future to enable credit cards. Is there a sample POS application built using in.de?
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Re: Point of Sale(POS) Desktop application Conversion to In.De

Postby g.lanzi » 16 April 2013, 13:17

With Instant Developer you can seamlessly replicate client/desktop system behaviors, even if the default layout of the software project you see when you open the IDE might give you the impression of being web-oriented (or mobile oriented) only.

For your specific case the trick lies in setting the shortcut for the right command. In fact, you can assign a function key to trigger each of your application commands.

Plus, the user is able to navigate across the panel's data using arrows and tab keys, and in addition you can use the SetFocus method ( http://doc.instantdeveloper.com/eng/default.aspx?ARTID=346F047F-3341-11D5-9154-ACC1F3000000&lang=eng )to put the application focus where you wish.

I’ve seen quite a few applications developed with Instant Developer where the mouse becomes useless. I don’t have any sample to show you as they have been directly developed and deployed by some of our customers.

I would be glad to show you more during our complimentary remote desktop session.
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Re: Point of Sale(POS) Desktop application Conversion to In.

Postby Renoir » 16 April 2013, 14:35

Thank you sir, I will be trying the setfocus method. and looking forward to the remote desktop session.
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