On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:40:33 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Alan G Isaac 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

AGI> > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002  Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AGI> >> One of the few problems I have with the Mahogany
AGI> >> interface is that when I pick a new viewer
AGI> >> (usually switching temporarily to the HTML viewer)
AGI> >> I sometime leave the mouse pointer in the msg view.
AGI> 
AGI> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002  Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AGI> >  Sorry, why is this a problem?
AGI> 
AGI> Because focus does not shift back to the folder view
AGI> in this case, so the next keystrokes apply to the 
AGI> viewer selection dialogue.  My personal experience
AGI> is that this only happens by accident and is never
AGI> desired.

 Yes, you're probably right. But I don't know if moving focus without user
intervention is a good idea -- I've never seen this happen and I think it
could really make someone mad if the program were to switch focus from the
control when he wanted to do something with it.

AGI> Here is yet another proposal.  When a viewer is selected,
AGI> could focus be automatically returned to the folder view?
AGI> This would be a complete fix, I think.

 This seems reasonable... >> TODO.

AGI> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002  Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AGI> >  I like to be able to press just TAB to switch from the tree to the list
AGI> > view and vice versa. This is why I explicitly exclude the message window
AGI> > from the TAB sequence: I don't want it to get into the way as there is
AGI> > nothing (or not much) you can do in it with the keyboard anyhow...
AGI> 
AGI> I also like this, but there shd be a keystroke to get in and
AGI> out.

 To get out you can just press TAB. To get in, what do you propose?

AGI> Related to this, is it currently possible to ask Mahogany to
AGI> display the raw msg text in the editor of my choice rather
AGI> than in what I assume is Mahogany's text viewer?  (I.e., to
AGI> change the behavior of ctrl-z in this way.)  

 No... you can, of course, cut and paste the text to it. The trouble with
using an external viewer is that it would be sued for all the other text
dialogs as well (there are not many of them but 2 or 3 do exist) and this
might be undesirable.

AGI> And since I'm so loquacious today, let me explore another
AGI> idea: can we have a faster way to move through the raw msg
AGI> txt w/o reaching for the mouse?  (Currently ctrl-z shows the
AGI> raw msg text with focus on the Close button, and it takes
AGI> two ctrl-tab strokes to enter the main window. 

 Wow, thanks -- I thought TABbing didn't work at all in that dialog but I
never thought to use Ctrl-Tab. I still have no idea why *does* it work :-)

AGI> I think putting focus on the main window would be better, as long as
AGI> hitting <esc> would still close the window, and then tabbing should
AGI> cycle through the buttons *and* the main window.)

 This would be definitely better -- will [try to] do it right now.

 Thanks,
VZ



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