Three ideas
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 5:12 am
Hi, all. 
I would really like to see the following three changes made to TextPad. what do others think of these ideas?
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From the sort-of-bug-but-not-really department: In macros that preserve the current selection, the "selection anchor" is not preserved, and should be.
What I mean by selection anchoring, is "the point at which you started to select text", with either your mouse or keyboard. So if you select THIS STRING, starting at the "g" and dragging to the "t", then when you press shift+left arrow, the selection should now be " THIS STRING", with the leading space. Conversely, if you started at the "t", and then pressed shift+left arrow, the selection should now be "THIS STRIN".
However, when you run a macro, the anchor reverts to what it was *at macro recording* time. I don't see any benefit to this. Please, if the selection is exactly the same before and after macro execution, preserve the selection anchor.
(By the way, is there a more technical term for selection anchor?)
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Add a small amount of dynamics to clip-books. First create a special "hotspot" for date stamp. Second, create ten parameter hotspots:
Where a simple dialog, with one through ten text boxes on it, is presented to you, so you can set these parameters on the fly.
Note that duplicates of each hotspot would not require the display text:
Sweet!
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Key commands currently may consist of one or two characters. I would love to have this increased to three. *Boy* would TextPad go up on the cool scale with this. Seriously, I'd love it to increase to even more than that (five?, awesome...ten?, bliss!), but I won't push my luck. :' )
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Thanks!
I would really like to see the following three changes made to TextPad. what do others think of these ideas?
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From the sort-of-bug-but-not-really department: In macros that preserve the current selection, the "selection anchor" is not preserved, and should be.
What I mean by selection anchoring, is "the point at which you started to select text", with either your mouse or keyboard. So if you select THIS STRING, starting at the "g" and dragging to the "t", then when you press shift+left arrow, the selection should now be " THIS STRING", with the leading space. Conversely, if you started at the "t", and then pressed shift+left arrow, the selection should now be "THIS STRIN".
However, when you run a macro, the anchor reverts to what it was *at macro recording* time. I don't see any benefit to this. Please, if the selection is exactly the same before and after macro execution, preserve the selection anchor.
(By the way, is there a more technical term for selection anchor?)
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Add a small amount of dynamics to clip-books. First create a special "hotspot" for date stamp. Second, create ten parameter hotspots:
Code: Select all
\^0What is your name?\$
\^1What is your age?\$
\^2What is your favorite color?\$
...
\^9Where were you born?\$Note that duplicates of each hotspot would not require the display text:
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\^0\$
\^1\$
\^2\$---
Key commands currently may consist of one or two characters. I would love to have this increased to three. *Boy* would TextPad go up on the cool scale with this. Seriously, I'd love it to increase to even more than that (five?, awesome...ten?, bliss!), but I won't push my luck. :' )
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Thanks!