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- From: forgeas@swinjm.adsp.sub.org (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: A Style Guide Question
- Message-ID: <qsu-r*P62@swinjm.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:16:42 GMT
- References: <17474@pitt.UUCP>
- Reply-To: forgeas@swinjm.adsp.sub.org (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
- Organization: The Software Winery
- Lines: 28
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- In article <17474@pitt.UUCP>, Dan Drake writes:
-
- > [...] type text into a beveled box which I handle manually. If the
- > user wants to type a d or a c, [...] Will the buttons be activated,
- > or should the characters appear in the "textbox"?
- >
- > 1.) If a text box is active, the user must click on the buttons to activate
- > them. I consider this unacceptable because it ruins the orthogonality of
- > the interface. You can't have some things work in one window, and not in
- > others.
-
- I had the same problem. I have chosen to see a "textbox" as a thing which
- needs to be activated to be able to accept characters, and when activated
- all typed chars go to the "textbox".
- THEN the user must press a function key (I use ESCAPE) to deactivate the
- "textbox" and return to the window shortcuts operations.
-
- Intuition StringGadgets acts already like that with the RETURN key which
- is generaly used as "accept the entry" and deactivate the StringGadget.
- So in this way, the ESCAPE key can mean "cancel" or "quit StringGadget
- without confirmation" an deactivate the StringGadget too.
-
- Hope you'll agree this way ;-)
- Jean-Michel
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