On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, John Levon wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Angus Leeming wrote:
>
> > Ouch! Clicking on an existing reference should launch the mini reference
> > dialog and so give the ability to navigate between them, but John's right
> > IMO; you shouldn't be able to launch the full reference dialog (with its list
> > of references etc) from Insert->Reference. It makes more sense to disable the
> > entire Insert menu for Read Only documents, no?
>
> I think some more thougth is needed here indeed - but this is not too
> important a case IMHO, not many people will use it I think
If use is made of the button controller and an appropriate ReadOnly policy
then all the dangerous bits can be disabled. The Goto/GoBack button can
still work and the user gets to see a full list of references within a
document. So you'd get (or should get) similar functionality to that
provided by the Refs menu entry.
> > Why not FORCE people to put in their own name by making it impossible to
> > apply the entry until a valid name is input. Same philosophy as the new
> > FormDocument etc stuff.
>
> But what about when I type directly in citations - this is the problem :
>
> (in bibliography)
>
> First entry, X. Q-bert, etc.
>
> <return>
>
> Seconds entry, J. Random, etc.
>
> Now both of those have to be given a name and obviously I don't want to be
> interrupted in my typing ;)
The key in the button could be made editable so you would still be working
in the buffer instead of an automatically opened dialog. Either that or
switch to WindowMaker and set "Automatically focus new windows" and "Open
dialogs in same workspace as their owners". That way your hands stay on
the keyboard.
Allan. (ARRae)
