Hi Dennis,
On 06.02.2013 19:35, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
For "real" input fields, (that is, form:text elements), direct entry works.
I am not sure what you mean by '"real" input fields'.
I am talking about the fields which are inserted into a text document in
AOO Writer by Menu Insert - Fields - Other - Functions - Input field.
These Input Fields are represented in ODF by the <text:text-input>.
For these Input Fields we have no "in-place" editing in AOO Writer - as
I have described.
I assume that the case being discussed is for conventional field values that
someone wants to edit. (Like a page number or a date field in a footer.)
In those cases, I suppose direct entry might be useful. But there is
probably something needed to avoid accidental type-overs and to also warn
that other actions might later over-write the change. Allowing for that,
allowing type-over seems like a reasonable improvement.
No, I am not talking about these kind of fields.
Best regards, Oliver.
P.S.: Sorry for the long silence, again. I had got another viral flue
which knocked me out the last days.
- Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann [mailto:orwittm...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 08:23
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; us...@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer
Hi,
recently I got notice about our (from my point of view) very
user-unfriendly way for editing Input Fields in Writer.
Currently, you can not place the cursor into an Input Field which in
general is shown with a grey background when Menu View - Field Shading
is on. If you click on the Input Field, a modal dialog pops up. In this
dialog you can edit the Input Field's content. On confirmation of the
dialog the Input Field's content is changed in the text document. To
edit the next Input Field you need to click on it. There is also a
special key shortcut - namely Shift-Ctrl-F9. This key shortcut opens the
Input Field content editing dialog for the first field. This time the
dialog has a Next button by which you can confirm your change and switch
directly to the next Input Field. A Previous button is not available. By
Murphys law the dialog hides most of the time the Input Field in the
text document.
I have got the opinion that such an editing experience is bad,
especially, if the document is a form which makes use of a lot of Input
Fields to be filled by the user.
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