Re: address@hidden: [Gnumed-devel] SOAP input key behaviour design question]

[Richard Terry]

Sorry Karsten, I've mis-understood your question.

I am now taking your question relative to a single STC control which may be a 
single line or multiple lines. Hope that is correct.

TAB moves between STC controls, not within lines of STC controls of course. 
I.E, as it functions at the moment in SOAP2.py, if you are anywhere within an 
STC control (ie, one SOAP line(s)) TAB moves you to the next SOAP unit (eg 
from a multi-line subjective input, to the Objective line.

The issue of down arrow is more problematic with multiple lines. The  inbuilt 
and logical behaviour is for it to do exactly what it does, ie, if one has 
entered several lines in an STC, then the up-arrow key or down arrow key 
moves one between these lines.

The question of whether it should also move you from the end of one STC 
control to the start of the next STC control is different. This will be 
programatically implemented and personally I'd agree with you that reaching 
the arrow keys and using it to jump between lines is convenient. My only 
hesitency about that method of behaviour is that which I previously mentioned 
when I used the script as an example - ie using the down-arrow to make the 
pop-up lists appear. I guess we need to debate this as a group. My method 
works brilliantly in my program using single text boxes, but I don't have the 
complication of multi-line STC controls.

How about for the moment we just allow the TAB/Enter as illustrated, and the 
inbuilt arrowing within the STC, and we will all put on out thinking caps 
about additional behaviours. I will sit with SOAP2.py for a while and play 
with mechanisms of popping up the word lists after the user has selected a 
word, to see what consistently and logically works.

Hope this helps, if not mail me back.

Regards

Richard.



On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:43 am, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Remember, I am talking about the multi-line soap input field
> only now.
>
> > User types in or has autocompleted from list a term:
> > =======================
> > S Middle ear|      (then hits enter key)
> > O
> > becomes     ====================
> > S Middle ear; |     (then either types more terms or hits tab/enter key)
> > O
> > becomes  ==================
> > S Middle ear;
> > O | (Cursor now sitting here wiating for further input)
>
> This sounds reasonable up to here.
>
> > Key                         Action
> > -----------------------------------
> > TAB                         go down a line
> >                             if no ';' after term and term exists
> >                             then add ';'
>
> Are you telling me that you want TAB to move to the next line
> *inside* the multi-line soap input field ? Would that be to
> the same column as in the current line ? Or to the first
> character in the next line ? What happens if I am in the last
> line of the soap input field ?
>
> Do you want me to post an example of what I am thinking you
> tell us to implement ?
>
> Karsten