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Submitted by davet on 2011/04/21 09:39

Pierre,

You have knocked out most all the problems that I can think of that I have put into Mantis about Gantt charts with the exception of the fickle cell. I was wondering if the fickle cell thing is a quick fix or something that would take a lot of time to fix. If it is simple to fix, could you fix it on one of you quick updates?

fickle cell video: /drupal5/files/351/fickle cells.swf

Dave

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Hi Dave,

Currently, cell selection follows the following rules:

Click on the cell text: Goes into edit mode
Click elsewhere in the cell: Selects the cell
Double-click: Increments the number ( numeric fields ) or goes into edit mode ( Text and Date fields )

Of course, I'm open to suggestions, if users think that this behaviour is not optimal !

HTH

Pierre,

The cell selection rules seem odd to me. Would it cause problems to change them?

I'd like to see:

One click selects a cell.
After selecting a cell, a double-click would enter editing mode.
No clicking would advance numbers. I think this is very confusing.

Video example of desired behavior: /drupal5/files/351/cell selection rules.swf

Maybe others could post their opinions on cell selection and behavior in this thread.

Dave

Item #3 - double-click to increment numbers - does seem out of place.

I also tend to avoid double-clicks

I hate double-clicks (with good reason) but could still manage between F2, & simply start typing to append text to a cell.

I guess it is very important what typical users would be used to from other programmes (I'm about as untypical as you can get from that POV, barely know how to use excel even)

Pierre and Tom,

Based on what you guys are saying would this work?

Get rid of clicking advances the number.
Click on the cell to select it.
Start typing to edit it.

Dave

[quote=davet]Based on what you guys are saying would this work?

Get rid of clicking advances the number.
Click on the cell to select it.
Start typing to edit it.[/quote]

Well, all I'm saying is that I personally wouldnt mind if these things were changed -

1 & 2 in that list are changes -

#3 is like that already - text get's appended or replaced according to whether menu: Edit >Overstrike is selected.

Even the double-click to edit would be okay with me due to #3 there and F2 to edit.

If double-click-to-edit were introduced, it would be nice if a second click -no matter how long after the first- sent the item into edit mode, same way as with files/folders in windows explorer. i.e. clicking on a selected item would go into edit mode.

Curious to hear what others think as well

I think that it should stay as it is except for the number increment.

Main reason ? it works well for me... :)

- The single click to start edit (when the caret) allows to start typing at a specific point in a cell. This is useful if you have a cell with a lot of text. and don't feel like ctrl-arrowing your way to the spot where you want to start typing.

- the double click to enter edit mode when on the selection area (or even on the edition area), is good when you don't want to bother positioning your mouse over the editable area (e.g: wide column but one word worth of text) but quickly want to enter edit mode with the mouse.

What are the advantages of other ways ? Outook does it one way, Ecco uses another, explorer another, etc.

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Hi Armando,

Thanks for your inputs. I see Pierre has made some changes in the upcoming v.0.9.25S: www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php

I hope this works out for everyone.

Dave

Thanks for the heads up.

Yes, it looks good to me.... But will see for sure when I can test it.

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> Changed: Click anywhere on the cell which has the focus enters edit mode

Yeah, it will be interesting to see how that works with drag and drop (I hadn't thought of that aspect before...)