Hi Ari, I agree it would be nice to display validation errors in the UI (text fields, etc), too, whenever we can do it reasonably. Updating the color/icon in the tree view is a great idea, too.
The biggest reason to have the search/validation in a list is to make it easy to see them and quickly access them. A typeahead dropdown for search would be sweet, too, but even so, I think having a list of matches you can quickly access again afterwards would be nice. I don't see a reason why you can't have both, and once you select an entry from the typeahead dropdown, put all the matches in the search results tab in case it wasn't the one you actually wanted. I know from my personal usage patterns, I search for a small substring and click through a few entities trying to find the result I actually wanted from numerous matches. Clicking through them one-at-a-time helps me keep track of where I've looked, too. Might have to play around with a few designs. At least with the FXML files, it is relatively easy to change the UI around, especially when you have the data behind it solved. I'll do some thinking about putting the validations in the edit view at the top, too. I can see the value of that, especially with a longer validation message. Thanks, mrg On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:39 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <a...@maniatis.org> wrote: > On 30/03/2016 10:28pm, Michael Gentry wrote: > > Since I'm not a fan of the popups, I'm thinking about something like this > > for search/validate: > > > > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54311650/CayenneModelerPrototype/SearchAndValidate.png > > I think we might be able to do still better: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14832257/SearchAndValidate.png > > That is, display the validation errors inline rather than in another > panel. As for search, a typeahead style drop down box in the search field > is probably easier to use and more intuitive. > > > There are probably some errors which aren't anchored to a field, so they > would need to display within the edit view, perhaps at the top. > > > But I'm 100% with you on getting rid of any floating dialogs. > > > Ari > > > > -- > --------------------------> > Aristedes Maniatis > GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A >
