I too was expecting a select multiple, however I think I prefer the checkboxes. The issue of selecting all/many items at once might be alleviated in a similar way to the way it is handled in the J602 package manager.
> From: Raul Miller > Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 2010 07:43 > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Multiple select might be a better way to go. In part you are seeing > > experiments. I think there are arguments both ways. At this point for > > someone getting familiar with the coding requirements it should be > very > > little work to try out multiple select. Unless I hear good arguments > I will > > probably leave it as is for the first release. > > Typical browser implementations of <select multiple allow shift-click > to select all the items in a range (from the previous selection to the > location of the shift click), or control-a to select all of them. > This would be faster than selecting 25 items individually. > > That said, selecting items individually in select multiple typically > requires control-click where regular clicks are sufficient for > checkboxes. > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
