OpenEuphoria

Re: UI question

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Aug 10, 2001
• 486 views

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


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> 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.
>
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> > 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
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