Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Galleries and focus handling

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 03 May 2006 10:28 +0100 Phil Martin <phil@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The problem with focus handling in Camelot is that Charles is right...

Well he isn't entirely right because the app does not in practice
behave the way Charles claims it does. And it is inconsistent between
different non-modal dialogs, and between non-modal dialogs, bars, and
galleries. That in itself can't be right.

I think Charles' guidelines (which seem to be mostly the same as the
rules you put are) are the roughly right. They are similar (but not
identical) to what actually happens in Xtreme, and have the merit
of self-consistency, even if they aren't the same as the UI guidelines.

My plea is that whatever we do, we do something CONSISTENT in ONE
PLACE. Xtreme seems to do different things in different dialogs.
Why is focus handling in the colour editor (say) different from in
the align dialog (say)? There is no logical reason other than at
some late stage someone reported focus handling as a colour editor
bug when it is in fact an "all dialogs" bug. We have the opportunity
now to set the rules and get this right once and for all, rather than
relying upon an incremental solution as per the early days of Camelot.

Alex