MEMO: Qualified YES (change it)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:49:45AM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> Then, vote... put up your opinion in a YES change the TAB key to work as it
> should.... or NO leave things mixed up like they are now.  Put up an opinion
> or just a vote... but let's see if we can't get this thing changed now...
> before it prevents many others from trying to use MEMO's in more and more
> applications.

As much as I hate the idea of basic UI elements having installation-
dependent behaviour, I think that there needs to be a way for the coder
of a system to decide whether MEMOs should 1) allow tabs, requiring ESC
or some other function key to exit the MEMO field, or 2) not allow
tabs, permitting TAB to exit said field. 

The default actually likely ought to be the latter, as John suggests,
so you could call this a 'qualified YES' vote, but I think preserving
the former ability for those coders who feel their app requires it
would be useful -- especially since that's the code that exists now.

But I do agree: making SAVE "modal" is a pretty bad approach.

Cheers,
-- jra
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