Limit new row creation to one empty row. -- Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Chris Collingridge < [email protected]> wrote: > An interesting question has come up on one of our products, and I'd > be interested to hear if anyone has (a) come across this before, (b) > got any references offering advice, or (c) just has a idea. > > We have a grid - hosted within a dialog that contains other controls > - in which the tab key moves the focus along the row to allow data > entry. When you get to the end of a row, hitting tab creates a new > row in the grid. > > This interaction is already very well understood by our users and > extensively used for fast data entry. The question has arisen though > - how to get the focus out of the grid so that you can access the > other controls? Should we just rely on access keys to enable that? > Obviously tab will just continue to move through the grid infinitely > (more or less) ,creating new rows all the time. > > Cheers, > Chris. > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
