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From: daniel@sickkids.UUCP (Daniel Guerin )
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Subject: Mouse-driven database entry program
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Date: Mon, 14-Apr-86 09:00:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 14 09:00:56 1986
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We are looking for a data entry programme to be used as a front-end for
a relational database package.  The idea is to minimize the amount
of information the user would have to type by using standard Mac
dialogue items (radio buttons, check boxes and scroll bars) and
possibly others (e.g. small up and down arrow for discrete values) for
data entry. The programme should allow for the building of data entry screens
using these Mac tools, as one would do with a forms management system on a
traditional--non-graphics--machine.  The executive should then be able to
display the "screens" for data input, and to output the data to a text file in
such a way that it can be easily loaded by the database software.

Does anybody know if such a program exists?  or if any of the major database
vendors is working on one?  I have not found anything in the literature.

Please reply by mail.  If anybody is interested in the results, let me know
and I will post a summary.  Thank you.

Daniel Guerin.  The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
	{decvax,cithep,utzoo}!sickkids!daniel