On 9/14/05, Christian Becke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 14.09.2005, 13:00 +0200 schrieb Kristoffer Lundén: > > I'm personally in favour of # 2, but if someone has strong reasons why > > not, I'm listening. :) > > I would really love to see #2 implemented, but I'm afraid changing > rubberband selections to add to a current selection will get users into > trouble. > Imagine a user opens a folder with a lot of items in it, so that it gets > a scrollbar. The user then selects some items using the rubberband, > scrolls the selected items out of the viewport and forgets about it. > Then, he want's to make another rubberband selection and delete these > items. Poor user didn't know that the behaviour of the selection > changed, and instead of deleting the items he wanted to delete, he also > deletes the previously selected items he had already forgotten about. > So changing this behaviour must be announced VERY carefully. >
Good use case. You are absolutely right. But I do feel this is already the case with for instance ctrl-select, where users often start selecting even the first file with ctrl pressed, since they are gonna do multiple anyways. A bit further awa, perhaps but generally the same thing. > Maybe a timeout for a rubberband selection could solve this issue, but > you had to know how long it takes the average user to forget about a > rubberband selection he made, then. Nah, too risky. =) > Another solution would be to indicate visually that there is a current > selection, e.g. by changing the mouse pointer. > This I like much better. I immediately got an image in my head of a pointer with a number attached to it, showing how many items are selected at the moment. Not sure how obvious that is, but something like that could be nice in either case: imagine a user who has selected a few files, scrolling down, and then later starts to ctrl-select more files in the normal way... A visual hint that files are selected even though one can't see them might be a good idea no matter what. Arrows pointing up and/or down to more selected items out of view might be another idea. -- Kristoffer Lundén ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gamemaker.nu/ ☎ 0704 48 98 77
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