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> On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
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>> >> Modified Files:
>> >> fv_View.h
>> >> Log Message:
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>> >> Start of insertion point handling for AbiCollab. Needs lots more
>> work.
>> >
>> > What does this do/supposed to do exactly ? Don't we have "insertion
>> > point handling" already in AbiWord? :-P
>> >
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>> I want each member of an abicollab session to have their own different
>> coloured caret so users can see who is editting where in the document.
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> Colour alone isn't the best way to do things. Perhaps you could also
> indicate the information some other way perhaps by adding an index number
> or other additional icon to basic caret?
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> At the bare minimum I think the most important thing is for the user to be
> certain which caret is their own, but being able to differentiate the
> others on top of that would certainly be a big bonus too.
>
My original thought was for the users caret to be black and other users to
be different colors.
Placing a number next to each caret would be an interesting technical
challenge for someone to attempt.
I'm happy to leave this for discussion for a while. The minimum would be
the coloured carets and we'll definately need the code for this at a
minimum.
Cheers
Martin
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> Alan H.
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