Re: [Flashcoders] elegant country list

[Daniel Cascais]

Maybe you could let the user choose a continent firts, and then give
him the country options.

On 11/18/05, Toon Van de Putte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi list,

 I'm building a shop site in Flash, where the user has to select their
 country from a list on the order form.
 I personally would like to avoid one big long dropdown, i hate those in HTML
 forms. Since it's Flash, I think I can do something much more user-friendly,
 these are my options so far:

 - a small menu where the user first selects a letter of the alphabet and
 then selects his/her country.
 - same sort of menu, but with the most likely countries at the top, in this
 case EU countries.

 Have any of you done anything like this before, and have any tips to share?

 thanks,

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Re: [Flashcoders] elegant country list

[Paul BH]

How about this as a suggestion, bearing in mind I dont know your UI at all...

very often in these situations, there are 5 or 6 most likely options,
so provide a set of buttons for these options , mebbe with flags, then
have a drop-down with all availible countriers you ship to...

On 11/18/05, Toon Van de Putte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I had thought of something like this. A sort of autocomplete. But the
 problem is that people with lots of different native languages are going to
 be using this, and they might not always know the spelling of their country
 name in English. They'd only have to know the first letter, but in the case
 of Finland (Suomi) that would already create a problem.

 I like the idea of giving, say, the twenty most likely countries upfront,
 and putting the rest in some sort of alphabetical system.

 Organising all the countries per continent/area is unfeasible, since i only
 have an alphabetical list. The client wants *all* countries in there, but I
 doubt very much that anyone outside Europe (or outside Germany, France,
 Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK) will ever place an order. So I'd
 prefer not to spend too much time picking central African countries from an
 alphabetical list ;-)

 On 11/18/05, eric dolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  how about keyboard press a letter, and matching country names fly in  you
  select one to autocomplete
 
  the comboBox does allow you to press a letter to scroll down to 1st match
  too I think.
 


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