Greg,
BINGO!!!
The Tab order should ALWAYS be the same!
Look at other applications, and see if they change the Tab-order. Only RDI changes the tab order...
-Ken Killian-
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Wilburn
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:47 PM
To: 'Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View
I see what you're saying, but very often I am using replace with find.
Here are two other points for thought.
1. If tab went to the Replace box first, you press tab ONE more time to get to the checkboxes - I have to press tab ELEVEN times to get to the replace box.
2. If you are not replacing text during your find, it would be a good practice to delete any text that was there before doing your search (since RSE retains this) - On more than one occasion, I have accidentally clicked on the Replace button (which happens to be just under the Next button) by mistake.
My argument is that I cannot recall a single application (on any platform), website, emulation screen, etc. where the TAB key "jumped over" an adjacent field (data entry point)... so why should RSE?
Not to belabor the point... I don't want another ALT-<key> sequence to remember.
Greg
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:34 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Outline View
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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