[net.micro.pc] IBM PC Screen Design Packages

hakkinen@eosp1.UUCP (08/23/83)

From: M. Hakkinen : Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ 

	Does anyone out there know about the availability of screen
design packages for the PC? Our need is for a package that would let
us explore various screen formats for form filling tasks, menus, etc.
The package should support color and other screen attributes. Ideally
it should be capable of providing input checking. The package would
not have to interface with an actual application, though if it were
possible to attach to one, I wouldn't mind. 

	Some time ago, probably in PC Magazine, I saw an ad for a
graphics editing system for the PC which utilized both the graphics
display and the monochrome display/adapter (ie., the mono display
presented either a menu, form, or command entry line to control the
display of objects on the graphics screen). Does anyone know of this
package and/or have any experience with it?

	Thanks.		Markku Hakkinen/Ergonomics Dept.

jph@whuxlb.UUCP (08/27/83)

#R:eosp1:-17800:whuxlb:6400010:000:400
whuxlb!jph    Aug 23 23:00:00 1983

There is a very nice package put out by Micro Data
Base Systems call KnowledgeMan. It is a data base
manager similar to dBase II with some very nice screnn
management functions. It has some basic validity
functions builtin (character, digit) and has a language
which will allow more extensive checking. It will
handle the creation of forms using all the attributes
of the color and/or mono displays.