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Okay, here's the behavior and why it's nice the way it is.

I need to search for occurrences of a text string. I press Ctrl+F to open
the 'Find dialog'. It just so happens this is also the Find/Replace
dialog. If all I want to do is find something I don't need the Replace
box, but I might want to search for Case sensitive or Whole word. So in
this case going to the Replace would be superfluous. If you want to
replace text, press Alt+P after filling in the Find text. I think, as
Edmund pointed out, no mater what they pick, someone's not going to like
it.

This stated, someone could argue going to the Replace box isn't going to
the next logical data entry point and that wouldn't be standard behavior.

(My apologies for assuming everyone thought it was broken in my earlier
post. It seems some do not and I can see why. I definitely search a *LOT
MORE OFTEN* than I search and replace.)

"WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/23/2015 11:29:13 AM:
----- Message from Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
on Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:27:16 +0000 -----

To:

"'Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries'" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject:

Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View

The Tab should position to the next logic data entry point - that's
true for all applications I've ever used.
In RDi, after pressing CTRL-F to invoke Find/Replace it "jumps over"
the REPLACE text box and focuses on the "Case Sensitive" checkbox.

I don't see how anyone can argue that is "standard behavior" for any
application.

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Edmund Reinhardt
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 10:43 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View


As we can see some people want the Tab key to follow user interface
standards of Left-Right and others want to follow the task flow
priority.
So no matter what we do, some will be unhappy.
I think Buck's solution of Alt-P was the most usable and it can be done
today.


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