Desperate plea to FP Tech...

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>John mentioned scrolling fields.  Not having them is, I think, one of
>the key reasons why more screen space is needed.  For example, if I
>simply want to add an e-mail-contact field to a customer screen I have
>to take up quite a bit of screen space to accommodate how long an e-mail
>address MIGHT be even though most of them don't even come close.  But
>most people don't need to see the whole e-mail address and even those
>that do rarely have to.

The main reason I've never implemented scrolling fields in my
accounting system's window handling routines is that I prefer
to have the cursor jump to the next field when the last character
of the previous field is entered.  This is particularly true
where one might have a number of 1-character yes/no fields in
which case scrolling fields would double the number of keystrokes.

Bill
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