Re: [Gnumed-devel] Measurements - adding and abbreviations

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-08-10, at 9:06 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> Because if a triple salute is too much work, how much better
> is a two-key salute ? (say, Ctrl-M or whatever)

A triple salute is three *sets* of two-key actions. In point of fact, to reach 
Measurements from the keyboard, we are talking at least

        Alt-E selects EMR menu *

        (Alt ?) A selects Add/Edit menu item

        (maybe here need a right-arrow key)

        (Alt ?) M selects submenu item Medication

        (Alt ?) M selects next submenu item Measurement

        hit "return"

so we are talking at least 5 or 6 steps, assuming ( * at the first step above ) 
that menus are the first priority and that "Alt E" will not first evoke some 
other active letter elsewhere in the window (e.g. on a button _E_dit )


> Another choice (but no less work) would be to use special
> entry rather than control keys: say, when you type $val it
> will let you enter a measurement.


This would be really helpful. Ideally

        $[abbrev]

for example

        $BP

would both evoke the measurement widget and input the BP into the first field 
which is "Test"

-- Jim