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#11 2008-03-04 22:11
- den4b
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Re: Hiding unneeded fields
Wow, that is a lot of writing 
Don't get me wrong... I understand what you mean, and I totally agree that it all these "greyed out", "auto focus", "tab order modification", etc - could improve the user interface, and decrease the amount of clicks and presses user needs to make to setup up a rule. BUT, you wouldn't believe if I tell you that "these" kind of features create a "hell/nightmare" for the programmer, and probably the most common cause for future problems.
It may sound simple again, but it is not. Just to give you an example, such a simple thing like automatically selecting the right dot box when you start typing in the associated field could cause problems for loading rules/presets, as they too modify the field which will cause the associated dot box to the selected even tho it wasn't how the save rule was configured. This is just a simply example. There are 1000's of things which could go wrong.
I really don't want to take this route... especially for the features which are not a "must have".
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