On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 18:13 -0600, Aaron Spike wrote:
I think I figured out what I find annoying about the live preview. The fact that it reruns during text box edits. Drop down lists and checkboxes make sense to force a rerun. But text boxes seem to be a bit clumsy. Sometimes a text box would work fine. If I'm typing a word to display I could see it regenerate an effect for each added character. But if the effect requires 5 characters and I hit backspace to change the final character, it runs and complains. Likewise in function plotter, if a function starts with "x" and I add "2" in front on the way to typing "2+x" I get a syntax error. Perhaps there should be a tag in the inx files that allows effect authors to specify textboxes where syntax matters and prevent rerunning the effect on every character change, maybe just on lost focus and enter. Thoughts?
Sounds reasonable to me. Kinda like "autocomplete='false'" in HTML. What do you think it should be called? The code is easy, we can just block the passing of the signal.
--Ted