I really mean the *insertion mark* (red/black vertical bar (or maybe other shape?) which blinks when the document view has the keyboard focus). When the insertion mark itself already tells me which side of the boarder I am, I don't need to look to the "Node Path Bar" at the top of XXE window. While the modified mouse cursor helps me to aiming, the insertion mark shows me whether I hit my target.
This little change would also avoid the "dead-key" experience (words from the tutorial) when using the cursor keys to cross text node boundaries. Maybe it's only a "nice to have" feature. On the other hand I guess it shouldn't be too hard to do. Regards, Michael Hussein Shafie schrieb: > Michael Huebner wrote: > >> when crossing element boudaries by hitting Cursor right/left it would >> be very intuitive to change the shape of the insertion mark at the >> end of the text element into a "]" and at the beginning of the >> following text element into a "[". Inside a text element the shape >> should be the common "|". > > > I'm not sure to understand if you are talking about the Insertion Mark > or about the Mouse Cursor. > > There is no problem with the *insertion mark* (red/black vertical bar > which blinks when the document view has the keyboard focus). If you > need to know where you are, simply look at the "Node Path Bar" at the > top of XXE window. > > The problem is to know where to click. When I try to move the caret, > do I move it at the end of the <emphasis> or at the beginning of the > #text which follows it? > > To improve this, we have already implemented 2 different *mouse > cursors* (I'm using XXE V2.5a1 - not released to the public). > > Over the end of a text, the mouse cursor is shaped like this ']'. > > Over the beginning and middle of a text, the mouse cursor is shaped > like this '|' (like in V2.4). > > (We have experimented with 3 mouse cursors ']', '[' and '|' and we > have found that 2 are sufficient.) ----------------------------------------------- - Michael H?bner Voice: +49/3677/69-2871 - Ilmenau Technical University Fax: +49/3677/69-1220 - Dept. Process Informatics http://www.theoinf.tu-ilmenau.de/proinf -----------------------------------------------
