Re: [Fwbuilder-discussion] default netmask autofill

[Vadim K. /r/ <va...@vk...>]

On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 02:54  PM, Keith Morse wrote:

>
> Just a small nit about the behaviour of fwbuilder.  And actually this 
> is
> not just specific to fwbuilder but other applications as well.
>
> when filling out the ip info for a interface or subnet, why do
> applications autofill the netmask for the classic class A, B, C values?
> The only one that might be worthy is for 192.168.*.* space but even 
> then,
> most of these are subject to VLSM requirements.  I'd prefer that these
> fields were left blank as I find it easier to fill these without 
> having to
> clear them first?  Is this an established standard when coding UI's 
> that
> deal with network information?
>

I hear you. I just saw it done this way in many applications, but I 
agree that with a wide spread of CIDR addressing it does not make much 
sense anymore.

I can remove it in the next version. I doubdt it is worth adding a 
"Preferences" control. what do you think ?


>
> The next is not a nit but a question.  Is hard/easy to have the field 
> text
> be autoselected when tabbing forward/backwards through fields?
>

It is possible but difficult. GTK does not do it for me, I would have 
to attach a callback to every input field in all dialogs and do it 
manually.

--vk