Role of [Enter] in dialog box.

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Role of [Enter] in dialog box.

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I have been entering a lot of data into the Transformation tool. How many times have I pressed [Enter] at the end of a line of text? A lot! Each time I get a warning reminding me I'm about to leave the dialog box. Now I know its a MS standard but I suspect it was a standard agreed on before the majority of today's computer users were born!

[Enter] should mean I have finished the immediate task i.e. entering a single line of transformation script after which that line would appear in the script window with the new numerical or text data set.

A button named "Finished" or "Close" (not a default) might be a better way of closing the window.

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Re: Role of [Enter] in dialog box.

Post by Erwin Denissen »

Thank you for your feedback. I'm glad to know you are making more and more use of the transformations.

I'll see if we can further improve that dialog.
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Re: Role of [Enter] in dialog box.

Post by Mike Thompson »

Erwin,
Yes! I'd like to enter a kind of Override Range using Glyph Names instead of code points.

Yes! When an exception occurs I would like to see the line number from the XML script.
I have been doing most of my transforms by editing the XML script in WordPad.

I found the following caused an exception:
Override Range: $60 $B4, $B7, $2022, $2A
but when I used the Transformations dialog to select the line (so it appeared in the field below), FC did not say there was a missing comma. The script was about 160 line in length and this bug took me a while to find (especially as it was near the end!)

Glyph names is far more humane...
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