Re: Autotype prompts

Hi,

The "tooltip" feature would be IMHO a good solution, because you can get the
help needed at the place where you want it.

Kind regards
Karlo

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: dk [mailto:[email protected]] 
Gesendet: Montag, 27. April 2009 07:23
An: 'David Earl'
Cc: 'Post-Karlo'; [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [Passwordsafe-users] Autotype prompts

David,

What I would prefer is to add a question mark bitmap next to or near the
Autotype field (if there is room) and, whenever the mouse is over it,
display the information that Karlo has put in his mail below.  We have too
many extra popup dialogs.

This feature is a bit like a tooltip - but always there (whilst the mouse is
over the image).  We use something similar to display the first ~200
characters of an entry's Notes field (subject to a preference - see
Manage->Options->Display) - although this only shows for a shorter time.

I'll look to add this for 3.18 unless anyone objects.

Regards,

David

-----Original Message-----
From: David Earl [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 24 April 2009 10:06
To: dk
Cc: 'Post-Karlo'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Passwordsafe-users] Autotype prompts

Another option would be a pop-up, which would in principle take less 
space and is extensible when new substitutions are added.

While the dialog is quite long, it's also quite narrow, so I'm sure 
there is scope for adding more here if needed.

David

On 24/04/2009 06:36, dk wrote:
> I would be against adding more buttons to the Edit dialog.  There is no
room
> and it would make the dialog very cluttered for little benefit.
> 
> The reason for the "Unknown Fields" is to warn the user that they have
> opened a database with an older version of Password Safe which doesn't
know
> about some fields.  For example, versions prior to 3.17 would not know how
> to deal or display the new Run Command field.  They would maintain it
> unmodified but cannot display what they don't know.
> 
> I suppose the tooltip could be expanded to show these, but as Karlo
> indicated, there are quite a few.
> 
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Post-Karlo [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 23 April 2009 23:06
> To: 'David Earl'
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Passwordsafe-users] Autotype prompts
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Nice idea.
> 
> These are all possible values for the autotype
>   \u is replaced by the username associated with the entry.
>   \p is replaced by the password associated with the entry.
>   \g is replaced by the group associated with the entry.
>   \i is replaced by the title associated with the entry.
>   \o is replaced by the contents of the (possibly multilined) Notes field.
>   \r end of line character
>   \oNNN is replaced by the contents of the n.th line of the Notes field
>   \b is replaced by the backspace key.
>   \t is replaced by the Tab key, in effect skipping a field.
>   \n is replaced by the enter key, in effect pressing a button.
>   \\ is replaced by the backslash (\) key.
>   \dNNN sets the delay between characters to NNN milliseconds, 10 is
default
> 
> These are 12 possibilities in total.
> Do we need them all?
> 
> To the right of the edit field for autotype there is a (normally hidden)
> field "Number of unknown fields:", so we would have to put those (max.) 12
> buttons somewhere else (below the autotype edit field?)
> 
> In the manage => options => misc menu there is also the default autotyope
> field!
> 
> Kind regards
> Karlo
>  
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: David Earl [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. April 2009 17:02
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: [Passwordsafe-users] Autotype prompts
> 
> I can never remember the cryptic sequences for autotype strings. How 
> about putting GTUPNB buttons alongside the autotype field so you can 
> click them to insert \u etc into the string (and extra ones for TAB, 
> time delay etc, the last of which would pop up a box asking for delay 
> time in milliseconds, similarly for \oNNN).
> 
> David
> 
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