> From: bob therriault > > I agree with you that things should not be forced on the user and I > think that an additional pair of radio buttons and a static control > below the existing display format would not get in the way of the > user's understanding of the way the form works. At the very least when > they clicked these buttons they would see the results of their choice > without doing any harm. > > You did mention the usefulness of cut and paste but to be honest I > hadn't even tried cut and paste. Of course being a multiselect you can > cut and paste the entire display by using the shift key to select > multiple lines. I had been wondering why the listbox was enabled but > now I see that in addition to adding contrast to the display (it is > not greyed out) it also allows the user to select the lines. Anyway, > if someone else doesn't beat me to it, I'll put up a version that > includes the choice of box drawing characters in the next couple days > (hitting a busy stretch through the weekend)
I'm not able to copy from the listbox on Windows. Maybe it would be better to make the control a readonly multiline edit box. i.e. editm instead of listbox xywh 0 0 225 150;cc tdisp editm ws_hscroll ws_vscroll es_readonly rightmove bottommove; Another idea - it might be nice to display multiple formats at once for direct comparison (i.e. replace the radio buttons for display format with checkboxes). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
