[drats_users] Filling a forms locks other windows

[dave at proficia.com]

Okay that explains it. I look forward to being able to keep that window open
and edit while using the chat window as well. I guess 0.3 may help.



> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:drats_users-bounces at lists.danplanet.com]On Behalf Of Dan Smith
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:37 PM
> To: Discussion of D-RATS
> Subject: Re: [drats_users] Filling a forms locks other windows
>
>
> > Something I really hadn't noticed until we started using forms quite
> > a bit is the inability to respond to a message in the chat window
> > while a form is open. If you have a form open you can't do anything
> > else in D-RATS.
>
> It's a dialog box, which means it's "modal".  It behaves just like a
> "save" box in another application.
>
> The UI in 0.2 is setup to assume some amount of modality from the form
> and changing it is non-trivial.  In 0.3 I will be better able to make it
> behave like an email client where you can have multiple form windows
> open without making the rest of the UI wait on it.
>
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