It pays to watch your staff or Super-Fast-Typing behaviour
Submitted by Matt C on Tue, 09/12/2008 - 23:40
I watch a receptionist the other day furiously belt out a series of key strokes. Collecting the small pieces of broken black keyboard plastic I enquired as to why she must strike with such vigour so suddenly.
She answered that in order to get the drop down box (eg.species) to accept more then one letter she must type very fast. She said she could get two letters in most times. I had thought it only ever accepted one letter. It got me thinking that the drop down boxes have a keystroke timer applied to them.
Is that true and if so can it be extended?
Matt
RE: It pays to watch your staff or Super-Fast-Typingbehaviour
Not sure if the select box behaviour can be readily modified. Being part of the echo project and most likely implemented in javascript it's default behaviour is harder to control. Worth checking though ...
One thing that we are in the process of fixing is the select box behaviour whn you utilise keyboard selection and do not hit enter on your selection or tab out of the field. With have jira'd the issue here https://openvpms.atlassian.net/browse/OVPMS-830
Cheers Tony
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I watch a receptionist the other day furiously belt out a series of key strokes. Collecting the small pieces of broken black keyboard plastic I enquired as to why she must strike with such vigour so suddenly.
She answered that in order to get the drop down box (eg.species) to accept more then one letter she must type very fast. She said she could get two letters in most times. I had thought it only ever accepted one letter. It got me thinking that the drop down boxes have a keystroke timer applied to them.
Is that true and if so can it be extended?
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Select box
Hi Tony,
was just wondering..
Cheers,
Matt
It pays to watch your staff
I have just tried to replicate this. Initially I was using firefox on windows and couldn't replicate the issue at all. The keyboard focus follows a logical path and you can easily type several letters in the drop-down boxes. Tried it in safari on windows and it behaves the same (ie. as you would expect)
I then tried it in IE7 on windows and it behaves as Matt C described. Also the cursor jumps all over the place when you tab in no logical order. Are you using internet explorer Matt?
Opera seems to be somewhere between them. You need to type fast but not lightning quick. The tabbing follows the correct pattern. I checked on opera 9 on windows and also found that the buttons do not work in opera 9. You have to click on the underlined letter in the word within the button (I assume it is a hyperlink). The version of opera 9 I have installed here is quite old so that could be a browser bug which has been fixed.
Select behaviour
Hey Matt Y,
Egads no! We aren't using IE7
I was using Firefox at work - can't tell you the version to be honest. It may not be the most up to date.
Glad to know that IE7 doesn't work...
Cheers
Matt C
Edit: Just checked via remote login and using Firefox 3.01 on site. Interestingly over the remote connection the behaviour is not replicated.
Also checked via remote connection using Firefox 3.04 and also not replicated.