Dialogue boxes are used by EasiWriter whenever additional information is needed to carry out a command.
A special kind of dialogue box called an Error window will warn you of some unusual situation.
The following elements can be found in dialogue boxes:
Action icons are used to issue a command to the dialogue box, such as OK to carry out the command and Cancel to cancel it.
Radio icons are used to choose one item from two or more choices only one of which can be selected at once.
Press a radio icon to select it and cancel the previous selection.
Option icons are used to turn a property on or off.
Clicking in an option icon reverses the state of the property - a '* or 3' indicates that the item is selected, and an empty box indicates the selection has not been made.
Arrow icons are provided to enable you to scroll up and down through a set of values.
Writable icons are provided so that a response can be typed.
Where a dialogue box has more than one writable icon, pressing Tab, Shift-Tab or the Arrow keys will enable movement from one to the other. However, if the response is invalid (e.g. typing a letter where a number is required) or out of range, the keys will have no effect and an Error window will be displayed.
If a writable icon appears next to a scroll arrow, either may be used to respond. In some cases the writable icon can be used to choose a value unavailable by scrolling - e.g. to specify very large or small font sizes.
If the Smart quotes option is turned on it will take effect in Writable icons.
Scrollable lists display a list of items.
Clicking the up or down scroll arrows scrolls through the list. Clicking an item selects it.
Pop-up menus enable a choice to be made from a menu that pops-up when it is clicked on.
The current choice is displayed. To its right is an icon that indicates the presence of the pop-up menu.
Users of !Clipboard by Thomas Leonard can cut and paste between EasiWriter documents and dialogues.
!Clipboard can be downloaded from:
www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197
The following keyboard short-cuts can be used when a dialogue box is open.
Esc is the same as clicking Cancel.
F1 is the same as clicking OK.
Tab ¯ Move to the next writable icon, or to the first if at the last.
Shift-tab Move to the previous writable icon, or to the last if at the first.
Ctrl-U Clear the writable icon containing the caret.
Copy Delete one character to the right of the caret.
Return Equivalent to clicking OK.