Hi Jacqueline,
Jacqueline Rahemipour wrote:
Hi Oliver,
better late than never :-) Sorry...
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software engineer - Sun Microsystems Inc schrieb:
Hi Jacqueline,
(...)
- page 4, line 34: Scrollbars become visible in the fields dialog,
if needed. I suppose, that the dialog is not big enough to show the
headings in proper way, even if tooltips are implemented. I tried
to visualize how it looks like if we have 4 or more levels (see
screenshot http://projects.ooodev.org/qa/crossreferences.jpg). The
feature will be used in large documents with many headings and
levels. Is it possible to implement the dialog resizable?
We also notice this usability issue.
As far as I know resizable dialogs aren't possible in OOo. We also
thought about the width of the selection list box. But, because the
other panes of this dialog uses the same respectively a similar
layout, we didn't want to confuse the user.
A colleague has made the following suggestion:
type: format:
+----------+ +----------+ name
| | | | +----------+
| | | | +----------+
| | | |
| | | | value
| | | | +----------+
| | | | +----------+
+----------+ +----------+
selection:
+--------------------------------------+
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
+--------------------------------------+
Then, we keep the three columns from the other panes and we got a big
list box for the selections.
Yes, this is a possible solution. As you already mentioned, an argument
against this structure of the dialog could be the consistency to the
other panes.
An alternative could be a similar design to the pane "database". I would
prefer, if the boxes for type and selection are placed in the first row,
to get the focus on the most important parts in the correct order: First
I choose the type, then I choose a reference and after that I choose a
format.
In the above example we have this order, this could be confusing:
1 3 4
5
2
What about that:
type: selection:
+-----------+ +-------------------------+
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | +-------------------------+
| | format: name
| | +-----------+ +----------+
| | | | +----------+
| | | | value
| | | | +----------+
+-----------+ +-----------+ +----------+
This example would allow this order:
1 2
3 4
5
This is also not the best solution, I suppose. May be it would be
helpful to ask the ux-experts.
Thx for your response and your alternative sugesstion.
I will prepare the preliminary specification with both suggestions. Then
I will discuss them with the iTeam.
Regards, Oliver.
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