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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
