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).

> >>>>> 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.

-- 
adam


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