Re: Flowing text between text fields
Re: Flowing text between text fields
- Subject: Re: Flowing text between text fields
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:31:02 -0500
John Murphy (email@hidden) on 2009-01-31 4:19 PM said:
>On many applications, when you enter in a serial number, there are
>several text fields in a row, and as the user enters in the serial
>number the cursor automatically jumps to the next text field at the
>appropriate time.
>I am assuming that this is a long string being displayed across several
>text fields. How is this done?
Personally, I would not mimic that UI. It introduces an inconsistent
behaviour to a very standard control. What if I mistype a letter and
the app jumps to the next field? Will the delete key jump back to the
previous field? What if the user does not expect this jumping and
presses tab? Then he is one field too far. I'd suggest just letting
the user type the serial number in one big field. You can then disgard
any invalid characters, like '-', and so it doesn't even matter if the
user enters dashes or not. Also, I'd suggest you exclude '0', 'O', '1',
'i', and 'l' from your serial numbers.
Sean
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and others are building windmills" - Chinese proverb
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