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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: patch to fix bug #44928
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-09-01 9:57:38
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On Sunday 01 September 2002 01:11, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Don, 29 Aug 2002, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > But anyway this behaviour is a bit confusing IMHO. The user wonders: hey, I typed
> > a new value, why doesn't the preview update? Having to move the mouse around,
> > or to give focus to another fied, shouldn't be necessary.
> 
> This isn't so easy as it sounds. while you edit the lineedit, there might be 
> temporarily values in the field which are not "valid", but "have the chance 
> in becoming valid".
Right.

> Therefore interpreting those changes upon every keypress 
> is quite dangerous. You definitely need some kind of "now the editing 
> process has finished, do something" indication. 
Why? I don't see the relation. Yes, the current value could be invalid while typing,
just like it could be invalid at focus-out time. In both cases the preview will show
crap. And the user will be able to fix it.

I think this is better than "typing a number and nothing happens".

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice-1.2-rc1 is out. ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/koffice-1.2-rc1/
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