Hi,
Niklas Nebel schrieb:
Ain Vagula wrote:
New selection method introduced in m248/m0 looks really nice.
Today I was watching at Google Spreadsheets selection behaviour, some
differences:
- In OO.o Calc cell cursor is visible during selection (when dragging
over range). With bright display jumping of this black frame is a bit
disturbing. Do we need to display cell cursor during dragging? In GS
cell cursor reappears, when mouse button is released.
Does anyone else see this as a problem? The cell cursor is always near
your mouse pointer, so it doesn't distract you from your current
activity.
Do not know if this is a real problem, because I have never heard of
this being an issue before.
One competitor does not show a cursor in a selections at all. Other show
a kind of pseudo active cell cursor at the cell were the selection
begins. This white area inside the selection always distracted me, when
using those products.
Calc's behavior has advantages if selecting a column or row to build a
sum. Competition has to handle this case because of the selection
staying at the beginning. Furthermore Calc always shows the cursor if
the selection got larger than the current view could show at once.
I would propose to stay with current behavior until hard facts tell us
that this is the wrong way to do it.
- In OO.o Calc after selecting a range cursor stays in last cell, is
this mandatory? In which cases user needs cursor in last cell?
This is from the "normal" way how selection works (not limited to
spreadsheets): You move the cursor, and a selection extends from an
anchor to the cursor. Some like it, some don't, but it's unrelated to
the look of the selection.
Moreover, when we are selecting editable area for using Tab only for
moving ahead, we must select area in opposite direction. In GS, cell
cursor jumps after selecting a range into upper left corner of range.
Or press Tab once. It wraps around.
Niklas
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Frank
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