I thought that idea was not terribly popular any more - Eclipse kinda does it, and its sometimes held up as a bad example - always surprising users by showing/hiding things.
On Nov 12, 3:50 pm, ranjith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would be the ideas to design a UI where the toolbar has to change > based on the perspective? The perspective, however, determines the > workflow that the application offers. So, the perspectives also should > get appropriate representation. > Currently I am thinking of something like below. > Suppose the perspectives are as "Edit", "Group" and "Print" > > Toolbar with edit perspective selected > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [[EDIT]] [GROUP] [PRINT] <cut> <copy> <paste> <rename> > > Toolbar with group perspective selected > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [EDIT] [[GROUP]] [PRINT] <collect> <move> <export> > > Toolbar with print perspective selected > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [EDIT] [GROUP] [[PRINT]] <preview> <options> <print> > > EDIT, GROUP and PRINT are tabs and rest is toolbar buttons > This way, the workflow is in focus. But this looks a bit primitive, > does anyone have some 'cool' ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
