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CHAPTER 6
POISE APPLICATIONS
Hints for the Windows User
If you are an experienced Windows user who is new to SkyLite, you will find many of
the keyboard and mouse techniques that you are used to in Windows are available in
SkyLite. Familiar functions such as pointing, clicking, command buttons, and moving
and resizing windows make the SkyLite interface intuitive for Windows users with
some subtle differences from what you may expect. The following hints pertain to
data entry fields in POISE applications.
Insertion point
• The insertion point that is normally indicated by a flashing vertical line in
Windows is referred to as a cursor in SkyLite and appears as a blinking box the
width of a character. When the OpenVMS line editing characteristics are set to
“insert” and this box is positioned over data in a field, the characters under and to
the right of the insertion point are pushed to the right as characters are typed.
• Typing Ctrl+A will toggle the OpenVMS line editing between insert and
overstrike modes.
Point and click
• When you click on a field with existing data, the insertion point (cursor) is always
placed at the beginning of the field, not where the mouse pointer was clicked.
Tab in a field
• Pressing the Tab key to move to the next field in SkyLite deletes all characters
under and to the right of the cursor.
Drag selection
• The Windows method of selecting text by dragging the mouse pointer across the
text is not available in POISE applications.
• You can, however, Ctrl+Shift and use the mouse to select text and copy to the
pasteboard using the SkyLite Edit menu. Pasting with the Edit menu acts as
though the text was typed.
Field editing
• When you initially arrive at a field for editing existing data, the first character
typed erases all of the existing data from the field. Although this seems similar to
the Windows feature of typing over highlighted text to replace it, there is no
highlight indication in SkyLite that this operation is in effect as is seen in most
Windows applications.
• If you replace text by mistake or just want to recall the previous data, press
Ctrl+B to recall the original data, or the Up or Down Arrow exits the field in the
direction indicated, restoring the original data.
• If the first character you type when you initially arrive at a field is a Right or Left
Arrow, the existing data will not be erased when a character is typed.
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