Re: [Gnumed-devel] Richard's phrase wheel comments

[richard terry]

Never fear liz, it doesn't work like that. 

You will be able to set the search delay to take into account your typing 
spead. I am a fast typist, 80-90wpm, so I've set mine to say 300msec, which 
means I get a few letters or more in before the search starts.

Regards

Richard

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:48 pm, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:37 am, richard terry wrote:
> > snip:
> >
> > Please refer back to the section documentation. For example when
> > prescribing, say for gout in the example below, on an actual paper
> > script, we don't write the first line as 'gout', we write
> >  Rx
> >  Allopurinol (or Brand eg Zyloprim)
> > 300mg tabs
> > 1 mane
> > for gout
> >
> > ie the phrase wheel dosn't need much intelligence here. It is simply a
> > vehicle to pop up lists - it needs to troll the database for all drugs
> > starting with 'a...'
>
> Please, don't start the phrase wheel at simply typing "a".  This happens
> currently on my slow outdated hardware and if I am slow typing the next one
> or two letters, it is so busy returning every drug (and formulation) that
> begins with "a" that it can't notice that I have typed "allo"
> This system wastes a good deal of my time in a day.
> Liz