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Bug 76750 - Wizards with mnemonics to read-only components should select the component's contents
Summary: Wizards with mnemonics to read-only components should select the component's ...
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: apisupport
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Templates (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Jesse Glick
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Reported: 2006-05-23 17:35 UTC by _ tball
Modified: 2006-10-23 16:39 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description _ tball 2006-05-23 17:35:25 UTC
The various wizards for new NetBeans module types specify mnemonic characters
for components which are read-only, such as "&Created Files:" in the new file
type wizard.  Mnemonics should only be used for fields that are editable.

A related problem is that these read-only fields are enabled, and so tab
switches to them even though there is no visual indication it has done so. 
Instead, the cursor just disappears until you tab to an editable field.  Setting
all read-only components to be disabled fixes this problem.
Comment 1 Martin Krauskopf 2006-05-23 21:48:35 UTC
This is intentional and also very handy. Since e.g in case of "&Created Files:"
you can easily press: Alt-C, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C and you have text copy-pasted in the
clipboard. In some case like code.name.base in project's properties it is quite
useful. And also it is easier for the user to report a bug when an information
from a non-editable field is needed.
Comment 2 _ tball 2006-05-23 22:13:28 UTC
Okay, I believe you are right.  But why stop half-way, in a state that provides
no clue as to this usefulness?  Hidden features generally indicate a bad UI.  I
recommend that when a user presses Alt-C, do the "select all" action as part of
switching focus, to make it obvious that this text is available.

And I dropped the priority to P5.  Doesn't that mean "not to be fixed in our
lifetime"? :-)
Comment 3 Martin Krauskopf 2006-05-23 22:53:30 UTC
I think that this was carefully considered by our HIE team which cooperates with
users. So this is not actually problem/behavior of apisupport wizards. This is
behavior of all our project's customizer, all wizards, ... probably all
read-only textfields in the whole IDE. So I still sugest INVALID.
But I do not have strong opinion about your idea. Since there may be usecase we
just do not see as an ordinary developers ;)
So please try to discuss this on nbui mailing list and put probably also "Jan
Rojcek" on the CC. Than we would have to adjust whole IDE to be compact -
probably some more general issue. All this reopened with adjusted summary.
Comment 4 _ tball 2006-05-23 23:15:49 UTC
It's no big deal, and at least it was discussed.  I'll mention it to Jan next
time we speak (he designed Jackpot's new UI), but avoid nbui as I've found its
"signal-to-noise ratio" to be very low.

Thanks for "listening" to me regarding this small issue.