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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Dialog Box Proposal Part 1
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 12:06:26 -0600
- Precedence: bulk
-
- Hello Ken,
-
- In your proposal, you make many suggestions. Will you be making the source
- code to LTMF-2 available to the developers on this list? (Myself, I'm
- just generally curious how the program does what it does.)
-
- > Handling sliders:
- > """""""""""""""""
- > Sliders MUST be handled in a redraw-as-you-drag (or active-drawing)
- > method in order to provide full functionality. Any sliders that are
- > designed to display information (such as scaling percentages, etc) should
- > be displayed either within the slider bar, or to the direct right or
- > left of the slider track. Sliders that take time to draw information
- > based on their position must be ghost-drag type.
-
- I'm not fond of this, but I could live with it.
-
- > character (ie. 0-9, A-Z). The activation characters MUST be in uppercase
- > to avoid confusion. Any characters that are typed with the ALT-key
- > combination (unless in an editable field) are automatically converted to
- > uppercase, and checked for the hotkey.
-
- No, please. Hotkeys are often in the middle of a word, so having them
- appear in uppercase would look pathetic. The underline is more than
- enough.
-
- > If an editable text field is in the dialog box, the only way the hotkey
- > can be accessed is by pressing ALT- and the key. If no editable fields
- > are in the dialog box, simply have button activation by pressing the
- > activation character; DO NOT require an ALT- key combination.
-
- I do not like this, really. Keep it simple, as you like to say. Why
- make the user have to remember when to use alternate and when not to?
- Alternate should be used in all situations for dialog box button
- shortcuts.
-
- > Editable objects:
- > """""""""""""""""
- > If the mouse is placed over an editable text field, the mouse MUST change
- > to a TEXT CURSOR while the mouse is over it. It must be changed back to
- > its original form when moved away.
-
- You sure do like that word; "MUST". Actually, I disagree with this as
- well. A nice feature, but hardly essential.
-
- > + SHIFT-CTRL : Insert text from clipboard at its current
- > position, then move the counter up one. Press
- > again to get the next previously entered string.
-
- What? Shift-Ctrl-Up Arrow to insert from the clipboard? Argh!
-
- > + SHIFT : Bring up a character table to select characters to
- > input into the editable field.
-
- I could live with this, if the character box obeyed the template. There
- is usually a good reason not to allow certain characters.
-
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