241126 - Date picker should allow free-form input where displaying without using picker

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 206382

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, enhancement)

Description

[Brian Ghidinelli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: 

One principle of software design is to allow input wherever you have output.  
Please add support to edit the time directly in the field that is currently 
uneditable.  Using the datepicker requires using the mouse and is a hindrance 
to daily users of the application.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add an event
2. Edit the start or end times
3.



Expected Results:  
Allow the direct editing of the date in the field where it is displayed.  The 
smarter this field could be, the better (e.g., it might allow for specifying a 
time zone inline).  At a minimum, allow the direct entry of a time that 
follows either 12-hour format with A/P or AM/PM modifiers or a 24-hour format 
with no modifier.  At an absolute mininum, allow a 24-hour entry with 
validation only to check 0 <= value <= 24:00:00

There might be some consideration of making the date/time one text field so 
they are editable together for speedier input.  The interaction design around 
the date/time entry is awkward.

If someone could point me where to look, I'd be happy to try and hack through 
this myself.  I don't know much about XUL but know Javascript pretty well.

Comment 1

[Mostafa Hosseini]

dupe of bug 206382?

Comment 2

[Brian Ghidinelli]

Yeah, looks like a dupe.  Sorry, the searches I ran didn't turn up anything 
for "date picker" and I should have used "time picker".

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 206382 ***

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: Sunbird Only. Be afraid for your sanity!