Desperate plea to FP Tech...

[Joe Chasan]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:46:08AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.

as one of those on the side of the fence of those who are desperate for 
scrollable fields to get more out of the 80x24 bounds - why do you say this?
I would not assume the engine triggers the scrolling mechanism unless
the field is longer than the alotted space - one character fields should
not be affected.  to have it occur for every field regardless of field
length would not be a good implementation IMO.
 
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-Joe Chasan-                      Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
joe at magnatechonline.com           Hicksville, NY - USA
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