Quoting Grant Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Purely subjective UI question.=A0 What=A0do people prefer on a toolbar =
> or
> form given that there is some process which can be started=A0and =
> stopped.
> =A0
> (a) Two buttons ie: [Start] [Stop] one of which is always not enabled,
> (ie when the process in underway only Stop is enabled)
> =A0
> or
> =A0
> (b) One button which changes - ie [Start] which once the process starts
> changes to [Stop]
> =A0
> I suspect from what I re-call of POET and other UI books that (a) is =
> the
> best choice as swapping UI around on people is generally considered a
> bad thing, but then two buttons take up twice the amount of limited
> screen real-estate...
Outlook Express has this silly Offline button that changes to Online as soon as
the button is locked down.
I dislike it intensely as having a button with "Online" written on it in the
depressed position implies to me that the Online state has been entered.
However IMO your suggestion of a single button (one that doesn't lock down) and
changes from stop to start or VV is an acceptable compromise.
An interesting idea would be to have both states shown with the one that is not
available greyed out (of course you can't do this with ordinary buttons)
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