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Subject:RE: what's this called From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"Chinell, David F (GE EntSol, Security)" <David -dot- Chinell -at- GE -dot- com>, "Milan Davidovic" <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:45:48 -0400
Chinell, David F (GE > EntSol, Security) was heard to say:
[...]
>
> It's a bit like the MatchEntry property for a list box in
> VBA, which can
> have these values:
>
> MatchEntryFirstLetter
> MatchEntryComplete
> MatchEntryNone
>
> I've also described this using the term "ring." As in "When
> you press C
> repeatedly, the selection rings through all entries that
> begin with "C."
"Ring" would never have crossed my (Canadian) mind. Might be a regional
thing.
To describe the part of the problem that you mention, I would say
"cycles through" or "steps through". Although, I might change the
person and word it "Press the same character key repeatedly to cycle
through all entries (filenames, labels, records, whatever) beginning
with that character."
- Kevin
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