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POISE APPLICATIONS CHAPTER 6
Hints for the POISE User
If you are an experienced POISE user who is new to SkyLite you will find familiar
functions and commands to be more intuitive, tutorial, and accessible as a result of
incorporating Windows-like features such as point and click, command buttons, and
moving and resizing windows.
Point and click
• The “click to a field” feature in SkyLite is basically the same as the POISE “jump
to” with one important difference. A Return is performed before the clicked jump
occurs which causes the data in the field being exited to be validated and written
to the file.
• The POISE jump-to restores the original value of the field before exiting even if
edits were performed on the data.
Windows dialog boxes
• The small windows or “dialog boxes” that are used to provide information or to
prompt for selection criteria are modal, which in Windows terminology means you
are required to respond to the information requested before continuing work in
the current application.
• The POISE application function keys, such as F10 or Ctrl+Z, are disabled.
• A dialog box can be moved around on the screen by clicking on its title bar and
dragging it to the desired position.
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