On 2008-02-18, at 9:54 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Alexander H. Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2008-02-18, at 9:02 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >> >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>> "Alexander H. Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>> On 2008-02-15, at 3:00 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Friday, February 15, 2008, at 02:43PM, "Alexander H. >>>>>> Montgomery" >>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> (As you probably >>>>>> already know, there's still a slider at the bottom of the side >>>>>> pane >>>>>> that no longer operates. >>>>> >>>>> It does operate...it just resizes the icons in the preview pane, >>>>> not >>>>> the side pane, so it's misplaced. I have some ideas on improving >>>>> that in general so any fileview has a slider. >>> >>> I updated >>> >>> http://homepage.mac.com/amaxwell/.Public/BibDesk.app.zip >>> >>> with a new slider for changing the zoom level (works in the editor >>> or >>> main window preview). See if you can find it :). >> >> Err, no. Am I being stupid here? > > Bummer...that probably means it's not the best UI :/. Move the mouse > around near the center of the top edge of the file pane (doesn't > work in > the single-column one, for obvious reasons).
Oh, hey, that's pretty slick. If the slider popped up whenever you're anywhere in the pane (except for over the PDFs themselves, since then you get the next page/previous page arrows), that would be fine. >>>>>>> 3) you can quickly toggle the main preview pane >>>>>> >>>>>> I like the toggle between preview and files. Having a menu down >>>>>> there >>>>>> for which preview view to use would make this even better. >>>>> >>>>> In this version, it's either textview or fileview, and I haven't >>>>> finished lobotomizing things yet :). I just threw this out there >>>>> because it answers a couple of things people have asked about, and >>>>> sometimes it's helpful to see ideas in a functional demo. >>>> >>>> >>>> And here we are asking for more surgery already... but I would find >>>> it >>>> useful (and new people would probably find it intuitive) >>> >>> So you're thinking of a menu attached to the segmented control >>> (toggle)? >>> That might be interesting to try. I think I'd set it up so it just >>> let >>> you choose a template, since I removed most of the other preview >>> choices. For BibDesk proper, I think you'd want more buttons, >>> though...but even so I think it would be confusing because of the >>> number >>> of options. >> >> Right. Maybe even two: One to toggle between Details/Annote/Abstract/ >> Template/etc. and one to choose a different template. > > Those could even be replaced with templates; we talked about doing > that > in the past. In that case, the Preferences/Display radio buttons > would > be eliminated entirely. Hmm, true, although PDF and Text aren't exactly templates. That's more- or-less true for the rest. -AHM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
