0006791: Keyboarding on a menu is trying to serve two conflicting purposes.

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0006791

[Squeak] Morphic

major

always

11-29-07 07:03

07-03-09 00:27

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wiz

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wiz

Priority

low

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duplicate

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assigned

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Summary

0006791: Keyboarding on a menu is trying to serve two conflicting purposes.

Description

The following is a description and analysis of what happens on most menus:

If you have the shift key down when you press the mouse the label editor activates (menu becomes twice as wide with the selection you are on highlighted once in red then in black . You can type one letter and that replaces the label. Subsequent typing "filters the menu" by elimiating labels that do not match what is typed.

Basicly this is two features in confilct.

One circa 1999 (di and ar) meant to allow dynamicly changing menu labels.

The other added later meant for selecting menu items via keyboard input.

The second steals and hordes keyboard focus after the first keystroke.

I haven't looked for the problems but it would seem the next step is to decide what is to go. I supect the label editing feature should be eliminated for now.

Additional Information

This was first mentioned in 0001780 but it clearly deserves its own report and followup.

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SYSTEM WARNING: Creating default object from empty value

duplicate of	0006699	new		Menu keyboarding works poorly and conflicts with menu label editing
related to	0001780	pending	matthewf	Stay up menus have a confusing and dangerous behavior when obscured.
child of	0006635	new		Mother of Squeak UI annoyances

Notes
(0011551 - 191 - 203 - 203 - 203 - 203 - 203) wiz 12-17-07 04:29	Hi Matthew, thanks for pointing out the relation with 6699. On reflection I decided to treat this report as the duplicate as the other is a little more precise and explanitory. Cheers- Jer

(0013144 - 91 - 91 - 91 - 91 - 91 - 91) KenCausey 07-03-09 00:27	Reopening the issue, status of dupes should match the status of the other existing matches.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
11-29-07 07:03	wiz	New Issue
11-29-07 07:05	wiz	Relationship added	child of 0006635
11-29-07 07:05	wiz	Relationship added	related to 0001780
12-17-07 04:07	matthewf	Relationship added	related to 0006699
12-17-07 04:26	wiz	Relationship replaced	duplicate of 0006699
12-17-07 04:27	wiz	Status	new => resolved
12-17-07 04:27	wiz	Resolution	open => duplicate
12-17-07 04:27	wiz	Assigned To	=> wiz
12-17-07 04:29	wiz	Note Added: 0011551
07-03-09 00:27	KenCausey	Note Added: 0013144
07-03-09 00:27	KenCausey	Status	resolved => assigned

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