On 16.12.2010 02:53, Greg Ercolano wrote:
> Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
>> Sure, that's fine if we want to support an option from now on in the
>> future. But we do also say that Fl_Multiline_Input is deprecated,
>> and we shouldn't add options over options to control something
>> that is deprecated.
>
>       Oh, I didn't know FMI is deprecated.
>       I'm apparently behind the times ;)

Ahm, no, not really. Perhaps I've gone too far with this. We did not
(yet?) decide that FMI is deprecated, but we are *thinking* in this
way.

>       If we deprecate FMI in favor of FTE, then it would likely need
>       a similar flag so that 'submit form' type applications using it
>       can retain predictable tab focus behavior when used in place of FMI.

Point taken, I can see that this might be a design feature.

>       I could see where with FMI deprecated, and FTE taking its place,
>       a global option could control FTE to the same effect.
>
>       I'm seeing my own situation; an app with many single and
>       multiline input fields, and wanting the entire submit form
>       (all widgets) to behave in a certain way (tab key nav).
>
>       I can certainly set a per-widget option via the app,
>       but if it were a global, users could control it which
>       might be useful, not sure.

Sounds like we need both: the global option, and the per-widget method.

Albrecht
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