We need a referendum... on MEMO...

[John Esak]

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> From: joe at magnatechonline.com [mailto:joe at magnatechonline.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:58 AM
> To: John Esak
> Cc: Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com
> Subject: Re: We need a referendum... on MEMO...
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> firstly, how is this any different from <ESC> to get out of a popup
> update? if you change one, you'd have to change both.  i am not denying
> that i don't get calls from customers who complain things weren't saved
> that turned out to be because they pressed <Del> to get out of a popup
> box instead of <Esc>, but my point is that its not the only place in
> filePro where this logic/design is used, and if you change one, you
> [should] have to change them all.
>
> secondly, i'm sure there are users out there who put a hard-tab in
> beginning of paragraph to indent, or as a separator between something
> that makes sense to be columnar in their minds.
>
> -joe
>

Okay, I see that you disagree.... but for such a strange reason.  Why in the
world would you compare a MEMO field to a popup update?  TABS work
*within*( a popup update.... they *do* exactly what they do everywhere else
in filePro.  TABS in the MEMO do not.   You are only inside 1 field, TA's
are supposed to follow the cursor path. In most HTML apps I've seen, you are
in a text field... you press TAB... you are moved to the next field.  Why
does filePro choose to funtion diffrently?  Yes, if you feel the idea of
columnar data is that important... then make a special key in the MEMO
editor for *that*, don't break the TAB functionality that everyone uses
throughout *all* computerdom. TABS take you to the next field... UNLESS you
are in a Word Processor, or Text Processor... yes, yes, I know... but which
is more important? Should filePro and its applications stay consistent, or
should this small feature  override all other considerations.

And, not for nothing, but inside a popu update, or any of the other filePro
constructions... you can *control* what happens with a TAB press.... you do
not have this luxury in a MEMO field.  One has a work around, one doesn't.

Come up with some other key to generate a TAB... Do it on the Options menu
like inserting the date or time... Why would this be so horrible?

JE