On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:34:13AM +0100, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> > OK, we still need the cursor position, but we don't ever need to show a cursor
> > being there, and (for example) we don't need to go to the dummy position when
> > unlocking the insettext. Why ? because clicking onto the dummy selects the cell,
> > and from then on both keyboard and mouse selection work as expected...
>
> You always start from the presupost of using a mouse!
bzzzt
I'm going to try a patch soon to show you exactly what I mean.
> Anyway you NEED to show the user which cell he's in actually so you need to
> show the cursor ALSO if we're in a dummy position! Otherwise we just could
> select the cell if we're in a dummy position (instead of showing the cursor)
indeed
> if that is a better aproach, but then the user doesn't see where he's actually
> when selecting a range of cells, so IMO we still need to show the cursor too!
the user has just moved with the keyboard into that cell. they're not goldfish.
> (maybe we could just change the look of the cursor in a dummy position)
nah
john
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