I don't know what you're selecting, but I ran into a similar problem with a tree control awhile back.
Our solution at the time was to display the items you selected in a separate area of the page - to the right of the tree, in fact. The checkbox for the parent either selected or deselected all of the children, but did not represent the state of the child items. With the selected items always visible on the right, and the parent having a predictable behavior, we had no mixed-behaviors to explain, and folks generally "got it" without too much trouble. Not scientific, but perhaps helpful for your web-app world. Bryan Minihan CA Global Ops (SCM) - Project Manager Email: [email protected] Phone: 1-919-392-1788 -----Original Message----- Meredith Noble Hi all, Has anyone tested "mixed values" in trees in webapps lately? We discussed this four years ago (http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=7380) and I'm wondering if anything has changed. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
