Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Galleries and focus handling

[Phil Martin <phil@xxxxxxxx>]

On 3 May 2006, at 11:20, Neil Howe wrote:

> > Yes, of course - which is why we need to:
> > * Set out the conceptual behaviour first (see above)
> > * Then try to encode that in a broad set of rules (this is where
> > consistency will come from)
> > * Then worry about the specifics of writing code to implement those
> rules
>
> Ok Phil, can you take your list of rules and refine them to complete a
> policy that we're all happy with? Hopefully we're nearly there.

Will do, just waiting to see what Charles says.

> The main difference between your rules and what Charles described is
> that Charles specifically names text controls as being the only  
> controls
> that consume keyboard events in a non-modal window. So please update
> your rules to take this into account.

I was trying not to be too proscriptive - to allow for keyboard  
driving of, say, dropdowns and maybe galleries if we can think of a way.

> Also, we should list the events that non-modal windows are allowed to
> process. And everything else they must pass on. I think that was  
> Escape,
> Return and window close events. Any others?

This may be related to an answer I have yet to give Alex: In my  
rules, "control" really means "window" and in that context the  
existing rules already cover handling Return and Escape. I'll check  
whether that's OK and make it clearer.

Phil