Re: Data entry

Quoting Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>:

> Keith C. Perry wrote:
> 
> >I'll apologize now if this has been discussed already but I was wondering
> if
> >there was any thoughts on how pgadmin is for data entry.
> >
> >I have someone who have been using pgadmin3 (one of the snapshots from
> December
> >I think) for secure data entry and it has worked wonderfully- its much the
> only
> >client that provides a homogenous encrypted native interface to Pg across
> all
> >platformss.  The one complaint is that you have to double-click on each cell
> to
> >enter the data instead of the somewhat (albeit defacto) standard of hitting
> the
> >tab key like in a spreadsheet.
> >
> >For small sets of data the current method is probably fine but from a data
> entry
> >point of view, the idea is to NOT have to pick your hands up off of the
> keyboard.
> >
> >Again, I'm not sure what the consensus is on pgadmin as a data entry tool so
> I
> >would not make "tab key functionality change" feature request but I'm
> wondering
> >if this is something that could be user selectable?  Perhaps a "Data Entry
> mode"
> >in options would be feasible?
> >  
> >
> This is the way it should work; still there were problems with the 
> underlying control. This seems to be fixed with the current version, see 
> our 1.1.0 snapshots.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> 
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Ahhh, well that is good to here.  I'm going to pull down the 3/16/2004 Win32
snapshot but if you could upgrade the Slackware snapshot, I would greatly
appreciate it.

Thanks!

-- 
Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
Director of Networks & Applications
VCSN, Inc.
http://vcsn.com
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