Usability Issues with Add Pages Dialog

[Seneca]

If I use the mouse to close  Add Pages Dialog then all is good.

If however I use the Return Key to close the dialog I need to hit it twice in order to close it. The Dialog should close after the first Return.

It seems that the first Return registers the number of pages and the second one closes the dialog.

 

[Old Bruce]

11 hours ago, Seneca said:

t seems that the first Return registers the number of pages and the second one closes the dialog.

I get that behaviour with a great many applications, it is annoying but actually expected behaviour after thinking about it. 

[Seneca]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

it is annoying but actually expected behaviour after thinking about it.

As far as I remember Apple HIG state that if you hit the Return or Enter keys, the Dialog box should be dismissed immediately.

Basically, these keys act as your pointer device. We don't click twice the OK button to dismiss it. 

[Pauls]

As far as I can tell a single press of the return key will close the dialog and add a page (using default values). It looks like the number of pages to be added text field is being activated in your video so the first click is terminating that editing action then dismissing the dialog on the 2nd. I think that's fair enough checking against the HIG guidelines. Let me know if that's not the case as it's tricky to tell exactly whats going on in the video.

 

Regards

 

 

[fde101]

That doesn't seem like a correct behavior.

[rusty5]

In a default Mac selection box, when the user clicks into a cell to insert the typing cursor, the frame around the cell turns blue making that cell active (see attachment). Now hitting the return key activates the default behavior, in this case closing the dialogue box. In Affinity's software, when a cursor is inserted into a cell, that cell does not turn blue, but after the first return the cell turns blue, becomes active, and then the second return triggers the default behavior of that dialogue box. It appears that all 3 Affinity products behave in the same manner. Is this a design choice?