You note that "there is no clearly logical next target control" in that tab order. Exactly. I like to on the spur of the moment decide that I'm going to do whatever as fast as I possibly can, with Tab, Ctrl-Tab, Alt-Tab, Shift-Tab altogether if possible. And sometimes if I don't have much open simultaneously the Ctrl-Tab and Alt-Tab work out just nice. But trying to get my keyboard time down to the equivalent of 80 words per minute (i.e., calling a change of focus a 'word') or more, there are times when I am popping up a dialog in an app run by the JVM, or one in which the tab order isn't the bare-bones Explorer dialog (Open/Save) and I often pass up a cyclic edit keystroke sequence that would work fast and haul the mouse over just because I can't anticipate precisely where the focus is going to shift to. I find I run so much different software, and there's always something new to try out; that I thought it might be handy to have a transparent overlay pop up on some designated keypress to show what the focus could shift to on these keys. Not that a novice would need it. Nobody's too dumb to figure stuff like that out on the spur of the moment by trial-and-error, or a good hunch. But when the UI is going the way of the tile-gaucho I tend to wonder, if you don't use the keyboard shortcuts a heck of a lot more, what DO you do? I phrased my query in the tentative way I did because, like you say, it's obvious that there's no standard way of doing things like that, and the mother of invention can bring us what she wants; and outside of that-- Who's going to care? Just me, I guess. I was using VS Express, so I don't have a real big option for personalization or enhancements in the IDE; but what I was thinking of was in general, over the whole gamut of dialogs and controls that have some spatially distinct distribution and ordering that leads to an as-logical-as-we-can-manage tab order; and when it goes beyond the obvious, that's where I'd think having an overlay pop up temporarily might come in handy.

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OriginalGriff wrote: You can get a cream for that nowadays, if you go to your doctor. I thought the cream was for logorrhea. In real engineering, you do what works in practice, even if the theory says it fails. In social engineering, you do what theory says works, even if it fails in practice.

I see neither numbers nor methodology in that posting. The link I provided has been collecting numerics for years. To refute it something similar that actually provides real numbers and which provides something more than a single instance in time would be needed.

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Trying to achieve high data density, the molecules would have to be brought close together, and not knowing the radiation spectra or amplitudes, you can't compare the distance with the useful minima we've seen for ferromagnetic storage. And one mol may bit-store reliably in isolation, but this says nothing about what happens in a close-packed matrix of such mols. I haven't read the text of the article this report refers to. If anybody knows where a copy can be found, gratis, please leave a link so I can look at it. Another thing is the decay chains and the idea of what happens to a matrix of these mols when decay occurs. Imagining a one-bit-per-mol data storage scheme leads to thinking of losing one bit of data with every decay. And one-bit-per-X-mols packed into an artificially created domain where all X mols store the same magnetization brings up the question of intra-domain thermal transfers, which although not scary for single-bit storage, might be a threat over a few billion such domains because they would have to produce radiation extending beyond the domain boundaries. I can imagine a problem there with isolating them from your microprocessors and other chips, which will quit working right if they're subjected to ion bombardment. I don't think the U of N would have suggested a data storage use for these mols, though, if something as obvious as that would preclude it; and I don't know enough about it to guess whether the emissive effects of U in this context would be different than in the pure state as we see it in fissionable material. Anybody know about this aspect of it?

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GAMerritt wrote: Undocumerited I see what you did there

For about half a year or so all was fine between me and Foxit, but then it started misbehaving after an update that didn't want to be reversed.

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You're probably right about that. Instead of abiding by the wise saying of olden days that "Necessity is the mother of invention", clowns like that turn it around backward, and have it that "Invention is the mother of necessity". And what a mother it is!

Exactly. That's more salient than a graph would be, anyway. Thanks.

I'm in a bit better boat there, if all goes according to plan. First Lottery, then.... Of course, dreaming the dream and living the dream are huge differences :((.