-----Original Message----- From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann [mailto:orwittm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 00:32 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; us...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer
Hi, On 15.02.2013 00:44, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > That's odd. I created a <form:text-input> field and it showed me an entry > window right in the document where I put it. I could then simply type into > the box that was part of my document. That is, in fact, what I expected. > Hm... I do not know <form:text-input> - I did not find such an element in ODF 1.2. Did you mean <form:text> or <form:formatted-text>? > The description of <text:text-input> in ODF 1.2 is for a situation where > users are prompted to make an entry. ODF 1.2 says "A text input field is used in a user interface to prompt a user to input text." But, it is not said, where the input has to take place. > > It sounds like you want to implement the text entry function of > <text:text-input> the same as for <form:text-input> (but without the form > features?). > Looking from your perspective I somehow agree. I am currently just listening to certain customers having concerns regarding our current UI experience. Best regards, Oliver. > > - Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann [mailto:orwittm...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 01:50 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; us...@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [improvement idea] "in-place" editing of Input Fields in Writer > > 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. >> >> [ ... ] >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
