Easy-decrement for inventory items

Motivation: We have to live with the fact that the GM has to make changes to characters' inventories. It would mitigate that inconvenience if consumable items could be decremented easily. Now it's very inconvenient because you have to double-click to get focus then delete one or more digits before replacing them OR toggle insert mode on and off OR highlight the entire entry and replace. These are the reasons that I'm now using ticks on scraps of paper instead of d20Pro for keeping counts.

Please implement an easy gesture like LMB (left mouse click) inside of the # fields to decrement the integer value (after verifying that the field contains a positive integer). Please do NOT add a spin wheel or digit-pulldown widget, as they are eye candy that are slower to operate than what you have now. Doesn't actually matter to me whether you add an increment operator for symmetry, because these things (arrows, food, torches, potions) don't increment by ones nearly as often as they decrement.

Since you require double-click to give the field entry focus, single-click should work ok.. maybe (could complicate internal-frame focus behavior, etc.). The goal is to not require multiple gestures-- do not want to have to double-click to get focus before doing the decrement gesture. Maybe you want to work in the MSW (mouse scroll wheel) operation that you use elsewhere-- to scroll for increase/decrease but press/click it for decrement would be imprssive. Or maybe tiny "-1" buttons in the cells.

 

I like your several other work-arounds using Abilities, but my players understandably like their plain inventory items listed in a single place, and the Item tab is that place. Though it would be nice to have user-initiated decrementing, I can live without that because the GM is already aware when arrows are fired, when characters eat meals, when torches are expended, etc., so I can just decrement items myself more simply than doing submittal/approval work. I just want an easier/quicker way to decrement. Besides Item tab being more intuitive and less of a hack than Abilities (for basic inventory items), it has the following advantages:

• Whether GM-assisted or if players use character import/export and their own Judge campaign to Edit their own character sheets, to shop we just use Add on the item sheet instead of keying in attributes. For custom shopping lists (with campaign-specific stats or other details) I can customize the Item library that they use.
  
  I need to start tracking inventory weight because I have some players that horde. They loot non-destroyed armor off of every corpse. Item tab calculates this nearly perfectly (lack-of-rounding bug that I'll submit sometime) and correctly accounts for "#".
  
  When I get time I intend to add icons for all of the common inventory items. That will make items much easier to spot both when shopping and when just looking for something in inventory.
  
  Pickup function works great and intuitively with this system.

This all works great for me. All I need is an easy-decrement for consumables.

I am also waiting impatiently for tighter integration between Item (inventory) items and Attack and Ability items. When that is working (I really hope within a year), IMO for consistency, this is where quantities of ammunition, charges, etc. (i.e. anything in the character's game-world inventory that has a count) should be tracked, though the associated Attack and Ability records may also reflect the quantities and definitely should decrement the counts.