On Thursday 27 January 2005 00:49, John Kershaw wrote: > At 12:07 am +0100 27/1/05, Martin Costabel wrote: > >>Maybe not on unfriendly Mac, but on windows, yes. The arrows are > >>made for clicking on.. > > > >It's actually quite standard Mac behavior, too. It's the way how you > >change the date and time for an iCal item, for example. There aren't > >even any arrow widgets any more. You either type the numbers or use > >the up and down arrow keys or the scroll wheel, just like it works > >in scribus. > > Okay, I'm now eating my hat. I checked InDesign and... tada, I can > press up/down cursors when I'm in the measurements fields and the > image does indeed move. > > But. Why would anyone do it like that? If I'm looking at a photo of a > girl I want to move the image so her hair is just the 'right' > distance from the top of the page. How will I know? I'll just know. > And I'll be looking at the image when I know, not the palette.
A) not everyone wants to use the mouse, and Ive seen plenty of quark users avoid the mouse B) sometimes u want to place by measurement (hence the ability to use the calculator in those fields, eg try putting in X: of "3mm+100pt+1in-1p".. just for fun.. ) > Humble pie for pudding? Done deal :) Remember.. some of us have used the others.. in fact.. one of the things I missed the most from ID when I first started using Scribus was the field calculator. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050127/0ee7e671/attachment.pgp
