ISSUES & SUGG: Windows 8 Touch - Library

Randy W. Sims

ISSUES:

• When using the Library as a popup (not in a tab or floating window), the text box doesn't recognize when the on-screen keyboard is activated and re-size the Library popup accordingly, so the effect is that items in the list are hidden off-screen under the keyboard. Eg. Notice when the library is viewed as a floating window and the text box is selected with the on-screen keyboard active the floating window resizes to fit in the screen available, above the keyboard, but selecting the text box in the library pop does not resize the popup to the available screen size.
• When using the Library as a floating windows, if Windows resizes the floating window to make room for the on-screen keyboard, the floating window does not get restored to its previous size when the keyboard is dismissed.
• As noted elsewhere, activating any of the textboxes (library filter, collection filter, prioritization limits) does not activate the on-screen keyboard when undocked, and manually activating on-screen keyboard in all the cases mentioned causes the topmost popup to close.
• Unable to drag-n-drop to re-prioritize resources using (finger) touch.
• Resource Info box does not respond to swipe movements to scroll the window. Only the scroll bar works.
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  Upon selecting Library, selecting Prioritize, long pressing on a resource doesn't always display the popup menu on the first few attempts. It appears the popup tooltip may be getting in the way and receiving the long press/right-click message. A related scenario is when the long-press/right-click menu is displayed, sometimes the tooltip overlays the menu, blocking selection. I'm not familiar with all of the touch api, but ideally before displaying the tooltip, in the tooltip display handler, it could determine if the message originates from pen or mouse input and display the tooltip, otherwise do not display the tooltip. This is likely a generalized problem that applies to all of the UI, suggest hiding all tooltips on touch input (as opposed to pen or mouse).
  
  

SUGGESTIONS:

• Flick left/right to delete resources from prioritize list.

Randy W. Sims

ADD'L ISSUE:

• Cannot drag resources from the library list. The list doesn't detect the start of a drag operation, it just scrolls the list.