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Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens?

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Gene Wirchenko wrote:
[big snip]
>      I do keep track of it.  What I need to detect is that a disabled
> item has been clicked on.  Then, I could shift focus back.  I
> currently know of no way to detect this.
> [...]
>
>      Exactly, but the focus still shifts.  It would make more sense to
> me if clicking on something disabled did not case a focus shift. Think
> about it for a moment.  If something is disabled, why should it do
> anything?
>
Why is it necessary to display disabled items? I realize that you would like
to have a stable UI for your users, but it may be possible to achieve that
by only presenting relevant options. Two other ideas are to provide a
bell/buzzer event for disabled items, or to use graphic elements that look
like the disabled items but can't be clicked on and won't be part of the tab
order.

-- 
best regards,

Neil

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Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-04-13 12:12 -0700
  Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-04-14 10:35 +0000
    Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-04-14 15:45 +0000
      Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-04-14 17:39 +0000
        Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-04-14 20:59 +0000
    Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-04-15 20:26 -0700
      Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-04-16 09:37 +0000
  Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-04-14 23:58 +1000
    Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-04-15 20:51 -0700
      Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-04-16 18:52 +1000
        Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-04-16 09:25 -0700
          Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? "Neil Gould" <neil@myplaceofwork.com> - 2012-04-16 13:13 -0400
            Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-16 18:32 +0100
              Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-04-16 10:53 -0700
          Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2012-04-16 13:44 -0400
  Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-04-15 00:33 +0200
    Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-04-15 00:00 +0000
      Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-04-15 20:27 -0700
    Re: Clicking on Disabled Controls: What Happens? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-04-15 20:24 -0700

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