[Gnumed-devel] What to do with information in popups

[Richard Terry]

As in all information in the SOAP area it should not become medical records (I 
beleive) until accepted as such by the user and implicitly saved - by either 
hitting a function key (I use F12 to save all currently unsaved data) or 
clicking a save icon on the task bar. It is not infrequent that we want to 
modify details as we write - just as we do in written clinical notes.

REgards

richard

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 09:00 pm, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > This is certainly coming on well. Almost useable !
>
> But it does not work on wxPython 2.4. Unless we don't want a
> SOAP control in 0.1 this will not help us.
>
> >  - the SOAP control will always be visible on the screen - it is akin to
> > your paper page you are writing on on your desk. The  OK.CLEAR buttons
> > when clicked needs to drop the contents of the SOAP control onto the
> > progress notes list underneath.
>
> Well, the SOAP control itself won't care what callers of it do
> with the information it delivers. If the user clicks OK it
> should just emit a dict keyed by section that contains the
> information entered into it. Whether the caller drops that
> into some list or writes it to the database or generates a
> song from it is of no concern.
>
> One thing I am wondering about is: How are we intended to deal
> with data having been typed into a functional popup ? Eg.
> imagine the user incantates the magic string that pops up the
> vaccinations control. After completing that control the user
> clicks OK. What happens next ? One thing is that we do want to
> drop a quick note about the vaccination into the SOAP widget.
> OTOH, we would also want to store the vaccination details into
> the database. Do we do this immediately when OKing the
> vaccinations popup ? If so how do we handle the case when the
> user CANCELs the master SOAP control ? If not where do we keep
> that information around and until when ?
>
> Getting this right is just as important as making it visually
> useful.
>
> Karsten