Grant, I prefer two buttons if you have the screen real-estate,
otherwise one button. I hate radio-buttons and checkboxes with
crosses in them.
On 3 Sep 99 at 14:34, Grant Black wrote:
> Purely subjective UI question. What do people prefer on a toolbar or
> form given that there is some process which can be started and stopped.
>
> (a) Two buttons ie: [Start] [Stop] one of which is always not enabled,
> (ie when the process in underway only Stop is enabled)
>
> or
>
> (b) One button which changes - ie [Start] which once the process starts
> changes to [Stop]
>
> 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...
>
> Grant Black
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