I’ve never really understood the behaviour of the Properties window.
Often I want to change the size of an element, and I often find my self trying to TAB from the Width to the Heigth field. If I press TAB in the width field I seem to lose track of focus.
Actually I just realized that focus is placed on the spinner button, and I can change the value with the arrow keys. That’s not obvious…
Here’s how I would expect it to work:
- I click in the Width field
- I enter the new value
- I press the TAB key
- Focus is moved to the Height field, and the value is selected (like the Width field in the screenshot above)
- I enter the new value for the Height
This is how it looks after I have pressed TAB in the Width field:
You have chosen to use mouse over to “activate” input fields, but I would have preferred click.
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Hi Ulrich, when pressing the TAB, the focus is actually moved to the next field, the problem is that the field is not activated when the focus is gained via TAB. I think it is a minor bug.
As for changing value with up/down arrows, that’s the spinner control’s default behavior, it has nothing to do with the spinner button.
“As for changing value with up/down arrows, that’s the spinner control’s default behavior, it has nothing to do with the spinner button.”
My point was that when the focus is not visible it is impossible to see, that you can change the value. The default behaviour of the spinner button is just fine 🙂
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