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From: smithwik@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (R. Michael Smithwick -- FSN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: GUI Style Question
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Date: 12 Oct 90 05:32:32 GMT
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["It looks like your friend flew the coup, Coop"]

In article <8973@milton.u.washington.edu> dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu (Dale Larson) writes:
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<In an application I am currently developing, I have a window for entering 
<data which includes radio buttons, string gadgets and integer gadgets.  
<Some fields are optional.  My question is:  Since string gadgets only
<notify when "RETURN" is pressed, should the value entered be the state
<of the string when "RETURN" was last pressed, or should I copy the string
<to the record just before freeing the gadget and closing the window?
<I think that I should be doing the later, someone please correct me if
<I'm wrong.
<--
<-Dale Larson  (dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu)

The data used should be the last data seen by the user whether he/she
hits return or not. Vista 1.0 requires CR to be hit, and we get endless
complaints about that. The user types in data into a single stringgad and
just assumes that that is what will be used. Wrongo. The program doesn't do
what the data in the window sez it should be doing and they file a bug report.

So make sure to read the gadgets buffer and never assume the user hit the CR.


Yours for friendier software,


mike


                                       >> mike smithwick <<

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