[Gambas-user] keyboard navigation of combobox

[Benoît Minisini]

> On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 20:53 +0930, Bruce Bruen wrote:
> > stuff about space bars
> 
> But I want to ask a question.  There appears to me these days that I'm
> getting a psychological dislike of buttonless pop-ups.  In many
> application these days you are presented with a pop-up that asks a
> reasonable question, you input a reply but the only option you have is to
> close [x] the popup.  I'm asking because gambas3 has some of these and
> from a usability point of view (or more correctly from a stimulus/response
> point of view) I <underline/bold/emphasis> don't particularly like it.
> 
> Perhaps I'm old fashioned (perhaps I'm just old), but I'm used to the
> edit/[commit|cancel] model of gui.  I get a feeling of uncertainty
> whenever I have to click on the [x] button in order to save something. 
> Further, there is no way to "uncommit" to a change.
> 
> Don't get me wrong here.  There are instances in gambas3 where this
> happens, but there are many more instances out there that are just
> reinforcing the negative feeling I'm getting.Maybe I'm just used to
> filling in government forms in pencil, checking them twice and using an
> eraser before commiting myself.
> 
> But as I say, I'm asking a question.
> How do others feel?
> 
> Bruce
> 

Can you be more precise? Which dialog box or window you are talking about for 
example...

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Benoît Minisini