committed: Re: patch -- fix some AbiTable widget bugs

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 21:41:13 EDT

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    Tweaks for abitable by Joaquin.

    Martin

    On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 04:02, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
    > The AbiTable has some subtle bugs, some were
    > introduced in the integration process, and some were
    > there originally. Some of them:
    >
    > * The "Click on the icon, drag the mouse and release
    > the mouse button" doesn't work to create a table.
    > Instead the user has to do "click on the icon, release
    > the mouse button, drag the mouse, click".
    >
    > * I was confused the first time I saw the widget at a
    > size of 1x1. IMO a minimum size of 3x3 is better.
    >
    > * Create a table with the widget, pass the button
    > again over the icon, and you will see that it's not
    > highlighted like the others buttons.
    >
    > * At first I though it was a good idea to gave a
    > starting size of 4x5 to the table, because that way
    > the user should be able to select its desired size
    > using the keyboard faster than if we start with a 0x0
    > table (MS selects a 0x0 table on startup of the
    > widget). Unfortunatelly that makes harder for the
    > user to cancel the operation. If the user clicks by
    > mistake on the icon, it moves up the mouse button and
    > it releases it, we should just cancel the operation,
    > but instead we create a 4x5 table. IMO is better to
    > just start with a 0x0 table.
    >
    > This patch solves all these problems. Please commit
    > it.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    >
    >
    > =====
    > Joaquin Cuenca Abela
    > e98cuenc@yahoo.com
    >
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