Well, maybe it's a "web thing" The spreadsheets and SAP programs I use all day
at work don't finish when you hit the enter key, they calculate a value and move
on. By force of will I managed to curb that habit, but curbing a reflexive
habit ingrained by years of usage is not as easy as you seem to think.

But I still would like to have available some record of the orders I sent. Is
anyone else getting numerous error message on orders they swear were correct?
Does the program sometimes assign the wrong color lizards to orders?


--- In madhouse-lizards@yahoogroups.com, "Madhouse UK" <steve@...> wrote:
>
> This criticism of the order entry page puzzles me, actually.
>
> Every single web form on the face of the earth uses the enter key as "send".
> Its the default for internet explorer.
>
> Moaning about the enter key sending your orders is like moaning "If I
> accidentally press the off key my computer closes down and I lose my
> orders."
>
> The answer is simply: "dont press the enter key until you've finished."
>
> I've filled in thousands of online forms in my time and I do not believe I
> have ever once pressed the enter key by accident and sent a half-filled
> form.
>
> In the end, if you want and all-singing all-dancing order entry program to
> do your orders with, then sign up for a couple of dozen games in advance,
> and get 20 friends to do the same, and we'll have a platform that makes it
> viable to do the sort of programming required for a 'house' program like
> that.
>
> Unfortunately, until the game becomes successful enough to merit it, we have
> to use the tools we have available to us.
>
> Steve Tierney
> Madhouse UK
>