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Subject: Re: digest
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 14:47:07 +1000
From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
Precedence: bulk
Ofir Gal wrote:
>warwick@cs.uq.oz.au said:
>>
>>Another approach is to do the edit field as a form - ie. when editing
>>it, use form_do just drawing the edit field. I haven't tried this yet,
>>but it seems feasible.
>
>I don't understand this one.
For example, if a click-to-type paradigm is used (I'm not suggesting it
should be though), clicking on an editable field would cause a popup
editable field. Once editing finished (eg. Return, or TAB, or arrowkey),
the form would pop-down. Now, the pop-up/pop-down could be invisible
to the user - all it is really doing is forcing a redraw of the area of
the editable field after editing completes. I'm not suggesting that
this crudest form would be acceptable to users, but it is the only way
I see of still using the objc_edit() function on dialogs-in-backgrounded-wins.
As keyboard input normally goes to just the top window, using this modal
click-to-type may be acceptable for bg windows. Note that Calamus uses
this kind of interaction for various text/numeric inputs into it's toolboxes
[although those toolboxes are desktop objects, not windows].
>>Ken/Goemon/Gehenom/Dan Hollis:
> ^^^^^^^
>Gehenom means hell in Hebrew...
Yes, it means seomthing like that in NetHack too :)
Do we have a list of topics-to-be-discussed? I'd like to add Iconification
to that list (not to be talked about yet, but when the time comes).
--
Warwick