[WT-support] IARU quirks with 3.11

Olivier Le Cam Olivier.LeCam at crdp.ac-versailles.fr
Tue Jul 17 23:09:12 CEST 2007


Hi -

>> You're asking WinTest for a "Smart Enter" key that does something 
>> different depending on what "mode" you are in, like TRlog.  I'd prefer 
>> to have the Enter key always do the same thing.  Human Engineering 
>> textbooks say it is generally best to have one function per key, where 
>> possible, for ease of use (and ease of learning). 
> 
> The suggestions in the Human Engineering textbooks are fine when you are 
> designing a system that is intended to be used by a large number of people, and 
> minimizing the training time is important. However, if your goal is to maximize 
> performance for the expert user, having one function per key may not be optimal. 
>   Hence, the (repeated) request for Enter-sends-message capability in Win-Test.

With the Win-Test automatic guessing, you don't have to press so much 
keys. But anyway, we talked again with Larry today and we can confirm 
that ESM is still on the v4 todo list.

73,
-- 
Olivier / f5mzn


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