Select all and deselect all buttons would be trivial to add. Are they really necessary?
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]>wrote: > An advantage of checkbox over select (especially multiple select) is that > checkbox is pretty much indentical across browsers whereas there are many > subtle differences for select. > > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Sherlock, Ric > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
