Re: TT 3.78 -- editable numbers and text pads

Hi all.

A good question about how to compute k/l. One answer is that is you pick up l and press the left arrow key until the caret is at the far left and then type /. I like this answer except that it can require lots of keystrokes. And with 1/3 in a shrinking digit format it'll take an infinite number of them. For numbers up arrow and down arrow do nothing so they could mean go to the beginning and end respectively. But that is odd and not consistent with text pads.

I could make "5/" become "/5" when dropped. A bit odd but backwards compatible. Unless I hear a better solution I'll implement this.

Best,

-ken
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Yishay Mor 
  To: weblabs-requests 
  Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 10:54 AM
  Subject: Re: [WebLabs-requests] TT 3.78 -- editable numbers and text pads


  Wow! I never thought it would feel so good to hit the arrow keys! Thanks 
  Ken!

  Everyone - please grab a copy and try it for 10-15 minutes at least. 
  This is a major UI change, which I suspect also entailed some 
  non-trivial internal changes. It is important to make sure we have this 
  right.

  Personally, I haven't found any bugs yet, but I have a conceptual puzzle:
  Say I have two numbers, k and l, and I want to compute k/l. previously, 
  I would pick up l, hit / and drop it on k. That doesn't work anymore. 
  (same for any  operation other than +). So, what's the alternative?

  - Yishay


  Ken Kahn wrote:

  >Hi all.
  >
  >This release has a major enhancement in how you can edit numbers and
  >text pads.
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  >Both now support arrow key editing.
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  >Numbers can be typed now even when an intermediate state isn't sensible.
  >E.g. 2/ or -.0  It is only when you drop them or stop pointing to them
  >that they switch to their canonical form (or their previous value if a
  >syntactically incorrect number is typed).
  >
  >Enjoy.
  >
  >TT378.zip is on ftp://weblabs.eu.com/ToonTalk/Releases/
  >
  >Best,
  >
  >-ken
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