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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
-