Hi Steve,
Friday, July 14, 2000, 8:17:32 AM, you wrote:
> Friday, July 14, 2000, 2:16:42 AM, Ming-Li wrote:
>> Agreed. To be fair, though, its current arrangement isn't illogical
>> per se. Yet the school of using Tab to move around fields and Arrows
>> to move within a drop-down list has won out in today's Windows
>> programming.
> Bite your tongue!
I don't think I said anything to warrant a harsh reaction like this.
> I was tabbing around input fields well before there /was/ a
> Windows! That is standard practice of data entry for nearly as
> long as there has been data entry.
I may have much less experience than you with computers and what
little I have is with DOS/Windows. I certainly can't make any claim
like "for nearly as there has been data entry".
For what I do have experience with, I remember using many programs
with "unstandard" practices, and my impression is that there were
many more such programs in the past then there are today, hence my
earlier claim. Please also note I was talking about two practices,
not just tabbing around.
Back to your original bug report.
> Create a new filter. Try to use the mouse to enter the text
> box for the string to search on. Will not work.
This one is working here.
> From that field (must be tabbed into) try to tab into the drop
> down boxes next to it. Will not work.
TB is treating the whole filter string area as a field, and use
arrow keys to move within it. After realizing it, I've come to like
it better. Tabbing/Shift-Tabbing is a sequential movement; you can
only move back and forth. The filter string area is structured as a
3-column table, and using arrow-keys to move around is more
convenient. Just my personal opinion.
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Best regards,
Ming-Li mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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