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I am just looking for opinions about this project that I am working on.
Background:
Windows Application built under Delphi. The application uses 4-
(depending on drill down avenue) deep modal windows to get informatio
(viewing and editing). Basically, you
1) Search for information, say person by First & Last Name...get list
2) Drill down on person to get Demographics, Education, Physica
Makeup, Social Makeup, etc.
3) Drill down on one of the subsections, say Education...get a listin
of schools
4) Drill down on school, gets a list of courses taken with final grade
5) May or may not have another drill down ...
As an FYI, just assume that I can't combine the info from the differen
drill downs into one page (it would be info overload for the clien
base).
My Task:
To convert the Application to work within a web browser just fo
vewing, for now, eventually I will need to enable editing.
Question:
As far as I can see, I can implement this functionality in one of thre
ways:
1) Have a single browser window and post back and forth through th
drill downs.
- If I know my end users, they will HATE that...
2) Have multiple browser windows pop-up
- Could be messy when it comes to keeping track of the child window
that popup
3) Use DHTML to pop-up the various windows in a single Browser.
I can implement anyone of the above solutions, I would just like t
know how you would tackle (since we're in Football season) the problem
Am I missing another potential solution? Has anyone here faced thi
type of project, your experiences would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Ralp
Background:
Windows Application built under Delphi. The application uses 4-
(depending on drill down avenue) deep modal windows to get informatio
(viewing and editing). Basically, you
1) Search for information, say person by First & Last Name...get list
2) Drill down on person to get Demographics, Education, Physica
Makeup, Social Makeup, etc.
3) Drill down on one of the subsections, say Education...get a listin
of schools
4) Drill down on school, gets a list of courses taken with final grade
5) May or may not have another drill down ...
As an FYI, just assume that I can't combine the info from the differen
drill downs into one page (it would be info overload for the clien
base).
My Task:
To convert the Application to work within a web browser just fo
vewing, for now, eventually I will need to enable editing.
Question:
As far as I can see, I can implement this functionality in one of thre
ways:
1) Have a single browser window and post back and forth through th
drill downs.
- If I know my end users, they will HATE that...
2) Have multiple browser windows pop-up
- Could be messy when it comes to keeping track of the child window
that popup
3) Use DHTML to pop-up the various windows in a single Browser.
I can implement anyone of the above solutions, I would just like t
know how you would tackle (since we're in Football season) the problem
Am I missing another potential solution? Has anyone here faced thi
type of project, your experiences would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Ralp