I use the Config Tool for at least 40 hours every week.
For 2 years, its almost exclusively been the EXE version (on a PC or the server).
Recently I started using the client on a Mac - latest, up to date OS, etc.
Over the past 2 weeks I've recorded some issues/differences that I see now using the Mac version.
When I can, I RDP to a server and use the Config tool natively. Its SLOWER than running natively on the Mac, but its a better environment, IMHO.
Some, who have not had the opportunity to compare the two environments may not even be aware of these differences.
Its my hope that the Mac tool can be updated to operate the same, as most of these things I've noted are deficiencies, and hinder the overall Aware experience... though, as I said you may not be aware that the PC version works "better" in a certain aspect because you haven't had the time invested in both tools.
here it goes (pasting from my notes). Please contribute your ideas. If Support doesn't think there are many users on the Mac version, then why should he invest time into fixing these issues?
Aware Mac Differences - Jan 2020
On a list of items, like in a menu when you select Start Process/Run Query, and you see the list of Queries. You cannot press <Space Bar> to select a line. (And many other similar places where there’s a list of items. You MUST click the little check box. Personally, on the PC, I click anywhere on the line then press space bar (its quicker).
In the Main or SubElement Properties Windows, after returning from setting options (like Operations with Rows, or Panel Operations) you used to be able to
1) See which one you just came back from/the cursor was still on it so it was “blacker”
2) be able to press space bar to go back in quickly. (This was very handy because 1) the blacker button helps draw my attention to where I was, and 2) Just as I clicked OK to close a dialog box, I realize I forgot something and have to go back in. <Space Bar> let me do that easily. Now, I have to look over and find “Operations with Rows” and click on it again
On the PC, when adding new Fields to a BO. You click the + symbol at the top. After you have added a field, you can press <Space Bar> to add another. On Mac, you have to use the mouse to click the button again.
The Rules Editor keep switching to Standard View. It will not stay “stuck” on Textual View
Pulldown Menus get skipped when Tabbing. Easiest example is to add a field to a table. Tab jumps from Name to Max Length, clearly over the pulldown. This happens all throughout the app requiring you to grab the mouse to pulldown. This adds time constantly on the mouse/off the mouse/on the mouse.
After using Customize Font to increase text size, I notice that most of the fields did not increase their Line Height to accommodate the larger size. The CONTENTS are generally fine, but many boxes (list Attribute Name column on a BO) are not tall enough to show the Descenders on the typeface. ps_Invoices looks like os_Invoices as a rough example.
If you’re using groups, then a “Propagate Attribute” dialog box comes up when you add/edit a field. Those who use this know it CAN ask you a lot of Qs. On PC, you can use arrows keys to up/down to a “No” option and press enter (arrow to No, enter, arrow to No, enter, arrow to No, enter). On Mac, no controls are selected and you must ALWAYS use the mouse.
I could take pics of these if Support is even interested but no sense if nobody else even cares.
Some other things I've noted
1) Lets say you have a large BO (50+ fields). If you create a new Form, my experience is that you almost NEVER want all the 'default' fields on that form - usually only a few. So I was going to suggest that AFTER THE INITIAL MAIN FORM, all subsequent NEW Forms would be empty. (After all, I normally immediately select ALL controls and delete all). Via RDP on the Server, this sequence of operations takes times... maybe 10-20 seconds to Create that long (useless) form, then save it, then expand the Form to see the section, then click on the section (causing a load of a long (useless) form, then double-click to load it, then I can finally delete. Then the save is fast. OK, maybe 30 seconds.
But, when you're not on the server, this is faster. Even though I'm on a decent sized Windows 2012 server, plenty of RAM, not heavy CPU, its seems my Mac does can handle this faster than the server. So, at one point I was going to turn this in as a feature request, then realized it was faster NOT on the server (don't know if it was the Mac or if a PC would be faster too) and since I hadn't planned to be on the server much longer, I backed off the request. So, even though I think creating Additional forms should still be created empty, it kinda solved itself.
2) Lets say you have 10 tabs open (BOs, processes, queries, etc.). Instead of closing them 1 by 1, you can save a little time doing a CLOSE ALL from the File menu.
But this is almost Instant on the Mac, but closing (already-saved) tabs takes time on a server. Weird.
3) And the big annoying thing about a Mac client is the 1 second delay that it takes to redraw Properties. Like, you click on a field in the BO list and you can't just go directly to the Length field, for example, you have to wait for something... some internal java/eclipse redraw issue make you have to wait about a second before you can see the current data displayed in all the properties.
