Does the program provide tool tips, right-mouse click pop-up menus and standard Windows selection methods?
“Tool tips” are those helpful tips that spontaneously pop up when your mouse cursor lingers over a command button. Manifold System includes full tool tips on all toolbar buttons, as well as supplemental prompts in the status line. Clicking in various areas with the right mouse calls up context sensitive pop-up menus that change depending on the context of the click. Programs that are tightly integrated with the Windows user interface will use standard Windows highlighting and selection methods in dialogs. For example, in Manifold, to select all records in a table between two records we can click on the first record and then SHIFT-click on the second record. All records in between will also be highlighted. Does the package seamlessly integrate with Microsoft products like Excel, Access, MapPoint, SQL Server and Virtual Earth? Manifold does, but you’d be surprised how many dumb looks and blank stares you get from GIS vendors who don’t even know what these Microsoft products are, or how a
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