>>>>> I personally think it's not a good idea to scroll the PDF to the >>>>> note. >>>>> For one thing, you can have multiple selection. Also the selection >>>>> can >>>>> have another function, e.g. for copying. E.g. currently, you can >>>>> copy >>>>> a note from the notes table and paste it at the page you're >>>>> viewing. >>>>> That would be lost with your proposal. >>>>> >>>>> Christiaan
>>> Any of the arrow combinations has been assigned, unless you want >>> something like control-shift-option-command-arrow. See the Wiki. In >>> fact we already have a lack of arrow shortcuts, Leopard has made some >>> shortcuts useless. Moreover moving in a table through arrows is >>> build- >>> in functionality, we are not notified on how the selection is >>> changed, >>> only that it is changed. Moreover this would be rather non-standard >>> behavior, which users wouldn't easily find. And there must be really >>> really good reasons to do that. >>> >>> Christiaan >>> On 26 Feb 2008, at 11:49 PM, Bill Mohler wrote: >>> >>>> On the issue of scrolling the pdf, what if a special-key-and-arrow >>>> in >>>> the notes pane were to cause scrolling/selecting in the pdf pane? >>>> In playing with my notes pane just now I don't recognize any >>>> function >>>> that control-arrow, command-arrow, or control-command-arrow are >>>> assigned to. They seem to be unmodified functionally. If one of >>>> those combinations were to be given the same functionality as a >>>> double-click on the page number in the notes pane (scrolls and >>>> selects the note within the pdf), it would give the effect that I'm >>>> suggesting. It seems that it would be unobtrusive with respect to >>>> the problems you've mentioned, since you would have to intentionally >>>> browse with the modified arrows to have the effect. >>>> >>>> Bill On 27 Feb 2008, at 12:09 AM, Bill Mohler wrote: > > OK. On 2/26/08 6:51 PM, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > Well, it could work with Command arrow, as at least when the table is > selected that would otherwise do nothing. > > Christiaan Yes, I think Bill's suggestion is a good one. I have never understood why the typical Mac-like arrow keys did not move up/down to the next note in the list. It seems natural that this would happen. As for the scrolling to that location...I don't like that idea, for the reasons Christian said, generally (although I don't think lots of folks are pasting into a PDF). I just wouldn't want the screen to be moving so much as I reviewed notes sequentially. On the main topic: arrow keys to move up/down in notes list... This seems very intuitive (I still sometimes do it, when I'm not thinking.) The modifier key idea came immediately to my head after Christiaan's first reply, so I'm with Bill on that. There are ways (with available keys) to do that so that the user understands, I think. Makes sense: hold a key, press and arrow and move through notes. (Of course, I still don't understand why the typical arrow key doesn't do that. I didn't follow the explanation.) -- G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
