DeepEnd is designed for a screen setting of 600 x 800 pixels with a 9-point font. The text is easily readable even from 3 feet away. Most of the buttons have words such as "Print" or "Save" rather than images so that there's no mistaking what the button does. This also tends to cause the buttons to be larger and easier to find.

DeepEnd employs a "Modeless" design which, while more complicated to develop, provides far more capability by enabling several windows, each accessing a different part of the program, to be open at once. You can easily switch between windows and also open new windows at any time.
Many of the data maintenance forms can have several instances open in the same session. For example, you can have 3 different Service Jobs open at the same time and switch back and forth between them.

• Standard Forms
  These forms are typically used for simple data tables and picklist maintenance. The navigation grid lists all of the records in the data table and provides sort and search capability. As the record pointer is moved in the grid, the textboxes and other data objects on the form are refreshed with the data from the selected record.

• Multi-Page Forms
  These froms are similar to Standard Forms but are designed to handle larger, more complex data sets. They have at least 2 pages and the navigation grid is located on Page 1.
  These forms also provide the abilty to filter the records displayed by enabling you to define specific selection criteria. This Record Filtering feature is described in more detail below.

• Pick List Textbox
  This textbox validates your input against a lookup table and automatically fills itself in with the table value found that matches what you have typed so far. It also displays a Pick List if an invalid entry is made. The Pick List can also be summoned by pressing a "hot key" or by clicking the pick list button.
  It is designed to provide consistent data entry and save key strokes.

• Auto-Fill Textbox
  This is the same as the Pick List Textbox except that entries not found in the lookup table are allowed.

• Date Textbox
  This text box is formatted specifically for dates. It also displays a pop-up calendar from which you can pick the date rather than type it in.

• Additional Notes Button
  DeepEnd provides an Additional Notes field for every significant data table. This Notes button displays an edit window in which to display/edit the text contained in the notes field.
  If there is any text in the notes field, the Notes button caption color is set to blue to indicate that the notes field is not empty.

• User-Defined Field Labels
  There are several User-Defined fields throughout DeepEnd that can be easily identified by their dark blue colored labels. The label text can be changed by double-clicking the label and entering the new text.

• Required Fields
  During data entry, some information must be entered to assure data integrity. Form controls that contain required information are colored Cyan to make it easier to identify them as being required fields.