Log some bugs at Adobe. :D And yes, it is annoying when they break something in the process of adding new features or changing the design. I got very accustomed to using ESC keyboard shortcuts in FM, and when I finally had a job with FM 10, I was annoyed to discover that some of them didn't work anymore, such as the codes for moving up and down rows in a table.
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Harding, Dan <dhard...@illinois.edu> wrote: > Pardon me for the rant, but I need to vent. > > I just recently upgraded from Frame 2012 to Frame 2017 as the former > doesn't work at all with high resolution displays. However, in the process > I've discovered that Adobe has broken several things... and there's nothing > more annoying than lazy programming. > > 1. The interface design industry has become so touch and mouse-centric, > that it has forgotten to make sure things work when navigating via > keyboard. When they redesigned all of the pods, no one bothered to make > sure the fields and controls are in proper tab order so that one can move > between them efficiently by using TAB and Alt-TAB. That's my preferred > method of quick access. The tab order jumps all around the damned pods; up, > down, back, there's no rhyme or reason. That's just lazy developers > ignoring tab order attributes in their dev environment. > > 2. This one REALLY is annoying and is causing me all sorts of problems. > Using HOME or END to jump to the beginning or end of a line USED to work > correctly, meaning that it would move you to the actual beginning or end, > i.e., at the beginning of the line the cursor would be placed before any > markers or anchors and at the end of a line the cursor would be placed > after any markers or anchors at the end of the line. That has changed so > that using HOME and END now only move you to the VISUAL beginning or ends > of lines. In other words, hitting HOME on a line that has markers or > anchored objects at the beginning of the line will put the cursor BETWEEN > the markers and the first text character, and at the end of the line, the > cursor will be placed before any markers or anchors. This makes it very > difficult to keep invisible stacked items on the lines they should be when > editing. > > What possible advantage would this change have over the previous behavior? > > Annoyed at careless software developers, > > -Dan > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/ > framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/ > listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
