Disposable Hero
Old Board Geezer
Group: Super Moderators
Posts: 188
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Posted: Dec. 04 2003,23:42 |
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This is almost the case now, but it's a little funky. When you look at the tab titles, you'll see a single underlined letter in each tab title. That's the shortcut key for that tab. But accessing them is... odd, at least on my system. I have to have some field within the contents of a tab (like 'Case Fix and Replace' ) selected/focused in order for the shortcut key to work. This has a few problems for me:
-Selecting a field causes that field's state to change. If I select 'Case Fix and Replace' then it toggles between checked and unchecked. This is true even if I only click on the name of the field, and not the checkbox. Normally that's a good thing - larger click targets = greater ease of use. But if the focus is tied to another function, shortcut keys in this case, then I have to click twice in order to return the field to its first state and then use the shortcut key... which is not more efficient than just clicking the tab that I want.
-It's my belief that selecting a field which has an associated text entry should auto-select the text field so I can just start typing the data that I want to enter. Instead, I often forget to select the text field and wind up going to another tab. Since I'm a heads-down, hunt and peck typist, this results in me looking up to discover that I didn't do what I wanted and I don't know where the h*ll in the app I am for a second.
-I don't understand why the tab titles are selectable but the shortcut keys do not work when they are selected. If there was a primary case for "when should the shortcut keys work?" that would seem to be it.
Short version: I agree with you. And Magnus will probably come in with a pithy explanation why we are missing the satanically cool auto-tab feature 
Edited by Disposable Hero on Dec. 04 2003,23:44
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