On Tuesday 08 January 2002 5:58 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:50:49PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Well, I can't see how you can use a single mouse click to select a line AND > > be able to use the arrow keys. How do you enter the DropDown without > > selecting? Ahhh. What about automatically highlighting the first item in the > > list? You could then use the up/down keys to navigate the list and press > > enter to select OR use the mouse. > > yes, that's what we want. Currently pressing tab then down whilst in the minibuffer > will do that (down auto-enters the browser). > > > I still think this is a mess. If nobody makes any noise to the contrary, I > > suggest that we remove the keys functionality from the DropDown so that it is > > navigable simply with the mouse. Keyboard junkies will be able to > > progressively refine the displayed contents of the DropDown by typing the > > next letter in the minibuffer and pressing tab. > > It's fine by me, I'm not the one who cares :) > > > All we now need to do is to close the DropDown if a key is pressed in the > > minibuffer (or in the LyX work area). Can you help with this? > > see my comment in DropDown.C. If you can make it work, congratulations. > But I doubt you will.
Want to know of another problem with DropDown as it exists at the moment? Well, display it and then move the main window. I have the feeling that many of these points have been covered inside combox.C but I am certainly no expert. A
