This quarter Pandora's Box can also be defined as a little subroutine called upd_window in the Unibase by DMAC de and dei execute files.  In the ANSI 'C' source code, Randy Fox had posted a note which said there was a "bug" lurking in the subroutine.  We developers should have run then.

A beta site client request started the one month odyssey when the site requested a varying number of screen rows of data under an image in "heads-up" keying. Sounded simple; was not; required a month to completely rewrite the algorithm.

BENEFIT? Not only can we now handle varying number of columns, rows, and font sizes, but the new routine is even faster than before.

Currently another beta site is testing the speed improvements on its 486 workstations for the site's fastest keyers. Weekly 40 hour productivity averages for these top keyers is now sneaking close to 24,000 key strokes/ hours in data entry. The improvement has been inserted in 7.2i and 7.3i releases of Unibase by DMAC.