Re: [Gnumed-devel] EMR tree... facilitating copying?

[Karsten Hilbert]

a nice medium-hard-to-do wishlist item

I wouldn't involve any buttons, however. Selecting with the
mouse, right-clicking and selecting "Copy" should be enough
of a tool -- doesn't that already work ?

Karsten

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:31:28AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1)
> Subject: [Gnumed-devel] EMR tree... facilitating copying?
> 
> In the right pane of the EMR tree is helpful text that is just waiting to 
> be copied to the clipboard in order to be pasted into correspondence. 
> This includes both the EMR summary, and individual notelet notes.
>
> There is no place (presently) within the EMR tree plugin to place  
> buttons... I had been thinking
>
>       Copy contents to clipboard and open new (  ) Letter    (  ) Text editor
>
> or even just
>
>       Copy contents
>
> which, if it were positioned above the right plane, would make the  
> target adequately implied. However I misremembered that there would be a 
> top margin into which to put such buttons (which there is not).
>
> The menus might do this, however they would only sometimes be  
> contextually relevant.
>
> It is true that it can all be accomplished individually, mine is only a 
> thought (and would maybe hint to the user who did not realize the design 
> intent to make such patient data easily re-usable.
>
> PS under Correspondence, is there a weak but real argument to add a  
> plain text editor to the menu, maybe
>       Write plain text
>
> either under Correspondence, or under Tools (maybe the user would keep 
> track of what they were doing, for the purpose of a bug report)??
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gnumed-devel mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel

-- 
GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net
E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD  4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346