1. UI question
A couple of UI questions here. In a editText field then right arrow and the
down arrow produce a movement to the right. I'm surprised that the down
arrow does that. Is this correct.
In an editText field that has been dorked up (like you were typing stuff in
the wrong field) is there a windows UI key (like escape) to put the field
back? I know how to put the original data back, but I didn't know what the
'accepted' key stroke is to do that. or even if there is one?
...george
3. Re: UI question
Chris, the up and left arrow do the same thing with win32. With explorer the
up and down do nothing. In my current software (non windows) data is
'accepted' in a field by the 'return' key. A 'down arrow' or 'up arrow' does
not represent acceptance of the data and it's put back the way it was
before, and the cursor is moved to the next/previous field. Esc aborts the
entire form and puts all the data back the way it was when you started. I'm
trying to discover here what would be common UI in windows.
...george
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bensler" <bensler at telus.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: UI question
> A couple of UI questions here. In a editText field then right arrow and
the
> down arrow produce a movement to the right. I'm surprised that the down
> arrow does that. Is this correct.
Doesn't really seem unnatural, it isn't being used otherwise. probably
convenient for those ppl with fat fingers 
But just out of curiosity, does the up arrow work for backing up also?
I don't think that it's supposed to do that though. It doesn't work in the
sle fields in my mail client.
> In an editText field that has been dorked up (like you were typing stuff
in
> the wrong field) is there a windows UI key (like escape) to put the field
> back? I know how to put the original data back, but I didn't know what the
> 'accepted' key stroke is to do that. or even if there is one?
I would've thought that the data of an edit field would only be updated if
you press enter.
Doesn't look like that is standard though.
>From quickly testing, pressing escape restores the 'Address' field in IE,
but not in the edit fields in Outlook.
Chris
4. Re: UI question
The use of the Up/Down arrow in edit fields seems to be standard behaviour
because Win32lib is not doing anything with those keys. I guess if you don't
want this behaviuor you will have to trap it in a KeyDown event.
As for 'undo'ing data changes, the edit field supports Ctrl-Z as standard.
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: UI question
>
> Chris, the up and left arrow do the same thing with win32. With explorer
the
> up and down do nothing. In my current software (non windows) data is
> 'accepted' in a field by the 'return' key. A 'down arrow' or 'up arrow'
does
> not represent acceptance of the data and it's put back the way it was
> before, and the cursor is moved to the next/previous field. Esc aborts the
> entire form and puts all the data back the way it was when you started.
I'm
> trying to discover here what would be common UI in windows.
>
> ...george
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Bensler" <bensler at telus.net>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 7:39 AM
> Subject: Re: UI question
>
>
>
> > A couple of UI questions here. In a editText field then right arrow and
> the
> > down arrow produce a movement to the right. I'm surprised that the down
> > arrow does that. Is this correct.
>
> Doesn't really seem unnatural, it isn't being used otherwise. probably
> convenient for those ppl with fat fingers
> But just out of curiosity, does the up arrow work for backing up also?
> I don't think that it's supposed to do that though. It doesn't work in the
> sle fields in my mail client.
>
>
> > In an editText field that has been dorked up (like you were typing stuff
> in
> > the wrong field) is there a windows UI key (like escape) to put the
field
> > back? I know how to put the original data back, but I didn't know what
the
> > 'accepted' key stroke is to do that. or even if there is one?
>
> I would've thought that the data of an edit field would only be updated if
> you press enter.
> Doesn't look like that is standard though.
> >From quickly testing, pressing escape restores the 'Address' field in IE,
> but not in the edit fields in Outlook.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
