Re: Efficient way to capt

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From	"Fred Kleinschmidt" <fred.kleinschmidt@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
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"Timasmith" <timasmith@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> I have a frame with several splitpanes or panels.  In general those
> are navigation orientated - tab, arrow up, arrow down, click etc.
>
> Whenever a user starts typing letters I want to place focus into a
> particular (default) field.  Of course if you are already in a text
> field I would ignore it.
>
> What is the most efficient way to do this without bogging down every
> keystroke with overhead?
>
> thanks
>
> Tim
>
I think you need to clarify (to yourself and to us) what you
really mean to accomplish. The user is navigating around for
a purpose - usually to get the focus to a particular field.

You are going to cause the user a lot of grief if she then starts typing,
only to have the text go into a different field than she has
just navigated to. So she clicks in the desired field and then
starts typing. But no! you said that when she starts typing letters,
the input goes to the default field, not the one she is trying
to type into! She tries again, and again to no avail. Now she is
really angry, and finally just discards the entire app and goes to
a different vendor.
-- 
Fred L. Kleinschmidt
Boeing Associate Technical Fellow
Technical Architect, Software Reuse Project

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