Re: UI question
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Aug 10, 2001
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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 > > > > >