[mcclim-devel] Presentation types, accept and the like

[Timothy Moore]

On Jan 15, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Anthony Juckel wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:39:35 +0100, Timothy Moore 
> <moore at bricoworks.com> wrote:
>
...
> This is actually the way that I started out (using MEMBER), so perhaps
> I'll settle with that for now.  One thing about the usability though,
> it would be nice if you could navigate the dialog completely without
> using the mouse.  Currently, I have to (at least, I believe I have to)
> click on the first field, then I can type in my value and hit enter to
> move to the next, but I have to again use the mouse to click the exit
> button.
>
You can specify :initially-select-query-identifier to accepting-values. 
Perhaps a sensible default would be the first query. I agree that it 
would be nice if leaving  the last query field would exit 
accepting-values and will look at implementing that behavior.

> I was looking for a pop-up menu, which is what I get with the above.
> When I click on the field to edit, a popup menu is drawn with the
> allowed values for that field.
>
A pop-up menu is nice. However, special effects like this should be 
done with accept-present-default. There's no documentation on what 
accept-present-default should do either in the CLIM spec or the Franz 
user guide. I just checked in an implementation of a pop-up menu which 
you can use via the climi::+pop-up-menu-view+ parameter. I also added 
some documentation to dialog.lisp about the internals of 
accepting-values. This should get people started on writing better 
input gadgets for accepting-values. Note that this uses internals of 
McCLIM and is subject to change, especially when we get around to 
implementing accepting-values panes. Also, the climi internal symbols 
will probably be exported from clim-extensions.

Tim