Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#3143 new enhancement

Scroll to description in the help tab in module forms

Reported by: wenzeslaus Owned by: grass-dev@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 7.6.2
Component: wxGUI Version: svn-trunk
Keywords: wxPython, HTML, forms, help, manual Cc:
CPU: Unspecified Platform: Linux

Description

When you start a module dialog/form, e.g. r.slope.aspect, and switch to Manual tab (or press Help button) you end up at the beginning of the module manual page (same as if you do it online or through g.manual). However, it seems more fitting for the GUI, that you go directly to the description because you already know the name, short description and perhaps even the keywords of the module. You don't need to know the synopsis/syntax and your are likely not interested in reading through all the parameters (option and flags) because you have them in the GUI.

I suggest to add '#description' to the URL, so that first thing user sees is the heading DESCRIPTION.

I'm attaching a patch (against trunk, r69358) but I'm not applidng it because this change would expose a confusing bug - when the window is resized (a likely event after switching to the manual) the scroll changes to the start of the page (thus loosing the focus on description section). The commit r69358 fixes case of loosing scrolling position when switching back and forth between Manual tab and other tabs. However, this resize-related bug seems to be coming from wxPython/wxWidgets because this happens in the wxPython demo as well. Once the wxPython part is solved, this enhancement can be implemented.

Attachments (2)

manual_scrolled_to_description.png (85.0 KB ) - added by wenzeslaus 8 years ago.
State of the GUI after switching to Manual tab (now and with the patch)
ghelp_scroll_to_description.diff (3.0 KB ) - added by wenzeslaus 8 years ago.
Patch to scroll to description heading with some general code to support this

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Change History (8)

by wenzeslaus, 8 years ago

State of the GUI after switching to Manual tab (now and with the patch)

comment:1 by wenzeslaus, 8 years ago

State of the GUI after switching to Manual tab (now and with the patch)

by wenzeslaus, 8 years ago

Patch to scroll to description heading with some general code to support this

comment:2 by neteler, 7 years ago

Milestone: 7.4.07.4.1

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

comment:3 by neteler, 6 years ago

Milestone: 7.4.17.4.2

comment:4 by martinl, 6 years ago

Milestone: 7.4.27.6.0

All enhancement tickets should be assigned to 7.6 milestone.

comment:5 by martinl, 6 years ago

Milestone: 7.6.07.6.1

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

comment:6 by martinl, 6 years ago

Milestone: 7.6.17.6.2

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

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