Neil Nelson wrote:

> I am very glad to see your new work.  It may be that in the future

> you would be looking to sell your work, and I it may be that some

> of the previous confusion might be cleared up by reviewing the

> following:



Thanx.



I will be sending you my invoice soon. I hope you understand that even

the very little that has been done so far took a lot of work (the help

files alone took me 3 hours), so a realistic price for the labour and

expenses would be BIG! I will keep it down by noting in my invoice how

much of that money should be handeled as my investment into the company

and is thus not to be payed to me, but eventualy added to a common

account from where it is shared to the members according to their

expenses.



My expenses jumped a bit lately, so expect the amount in the invoice to

be about 25$.



> Notes on the current version of your IOS program:

> 

> It is likely some of the ideas are impractical or not useful for your

> conception and should be ignored.



I will comment immediately, then it would be nice if you gather the ones

I confirmed and post them on the forum.



> When a new IP is entered in the Target IP, a new icon should appear in

> the window to the right.



Ok, I'll add that.



> Also at the beginning of the program and when a new IP is entered the

> Online check might be automatically set.  Though perhaps some manual

> initialization is required.  Perhaps when any activity is executed that

> assumes that the Online should be set, the Online is then automatically

> set if possible, or an error might be displayed asking the person to log in

> at which time it is automatically set.  The idea is to make things as

> automatic as possible so the user does not wonder why the program is

> not working as they are expecting.



Don't you think I have already tried that? One of the first versions had

attempted to connect on load, but it had caused a crash, because of the

delays in the communication software. I may try to implent this again

(it would take me about 5 seconds ;) but I don't say it will work this

time.



Anyway, if you check the IOS Help files, you will see that it is made

easy enough for even the most lost user to be able to do it in his

sleep.



> Other than sending messages, I do not see how to easily execute the

> other commands such as transmitting the available IP numbers on

> demand or to save a file.  You are doing these things, but you must

> be typing in the initial command string instead of having some button

> or option supply the command string.



Ok, let's say I make a button for the echo and the shell, but then there

are N functions of the Function server in the cluster. What do I do

then? You think a scrollable list of N buttons will be more user

friendly than a click on the "Function call" option and a simple line of

"function name: parameter"??



> You have several interesting options on the screen and I was wondering

> what to do with them.  You may want to provide a help screen and

> examples for the various kinds of things that can be done.  This is some-

> thing Harold and I could assist with when we understand what the

> program can do.







> In terms of the three primary items Harold and I were looking for:

> the IP connectivity seems to be working well--see the above icon

> note--, the file transfer is not obviously present, the remote OS

> command option does not seem to be present.

> 

> This is a bit of a laundry list that needs to be prioritized with the

> lower priority items easily ignored.

> 

> Harold, what do you think?

> 

> But in any case: good work Jure





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