OK, there is some mis-information and bad practices being put forth here that needs to be pointed out. First, the mis-information:
> Those hot spots are actually HUNDREDS of times bigger than the visible > dot or square which is pretending to be the active input area. This isn't how Windows works. Any checkbox or radio button option can be clicked on the checkbox or radio button, OR anywhere to the right on the text line describing the option. The text line often extends all the way to the right side of the section of the window in which it is found, often including blank space following the text. All of this is the active input area. Thousands of Windows programs work this way. Everyone needs to know and remember this. Now the bad practice: When working with multiple programs on the screen at the same time, it is risky indeed to just click somewhere on a background window in order to bring it to the foreground. You never know what you might be clicking on, as Bob can testify to. You should always click on the edges or corners of the desire window to bring it to the front. If you can't see an edge, use Alt-Tab or Alt-Esc to switch to the new window. Active input areas are just as active on programs in background windows as they are on the foreground window. That is the way Windows works. Everyone should practice "safe window switching." It is the only way to avoid inadvertent or unknown changes in the background programs. Thanks, -- Dave Berdan Millennia [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Janetzko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:20 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] priorities - was: Names > Rob, > > I appears that you are referring to the hot spots on the Family View > screen, where they are identified by tool tips. These are not the > dangerous ones, since they don't update any data. I think they are > a very poor design decision, especially for the two main people, > since there are icons to do other navigation functions, making the > screen rather inconsistent. Nevertheless, they are harmless, since > changes to the screen tend to be very obvious to the user. > > The dangerous hot spots are on the Individual Information screen, > where the major data entry is done. There are no tool tips for these > hot spots, and even if there were, they would not show up when Legacy > is not the active window (which is the main reason for clicking on it). > Those hot spots are actually HUNDREDS of times bigger than the visible > dot or square which is pretending to be the active input area. > > Clicking INCHES AWAY from some of these dots and squares results in > data being changed in fields which are not even visible on screen > at the time of the click. That truly is dangerous. I only found > out about hot spots after discovering over a hundred people in my > file had been marked as Private, when I had not intentionally flagged > any of them. That was easy to fix, but I don't want to do it every > few days to make sure it hasn't happened again. And there is no > telling how many people may have had sex changed, the never married > status changed, or been switched between living and dead, since I've > got individuals with all of those statuses. There's no way I can > look at thousands of records all the time to make sure they haven't > been accidentally changed. That is, if I would even know it. > Over 99.99% of the individuals in my database are total strangers > to me and their information is not stored in my memory. If I were > capable of remembering all of this information, I wouldn't need > a genealogy database, would I? > > I like Legacy very much, but I don't trust it at all. > > Bob > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob > Weiss > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 18:58 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] priorities - was: Names > > > Re the hotspots, they are identified when yuo move the mouse over that > particular area. For me, once I'm aware they exist, that is enough. > > Rob > > > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:46:53 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bob, > > The hidden hot spots...I'd forgotten about that issue. Can someone at > > Legacy tell us what is being done to address that problem? > > > > Jon Raymond > > St. Paul Park, MN > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
