I've used a special, fixed font popup plain text field for entry.
------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev 2009/12/22 J. Landman Gay <[email protected]> > I've got another interface problem I can't decide how to solve, maybe some > of you have ideas. > > I have an app that creates various printouts. These are all hard-coded; > i.e., the end user never sees the templates and can't change them. In the > app's preferences, though, they are allowed to add custom header and footer > text that will appear on each printout. This info is entered into fields in > the prefs stack. They can also set the tabstops by moving little sliding > arrows, so that they can control the text placement in each header or footer > by adding and positioning tabs. > > Because the prefs stack is much smaller than the print template stacks, the > text entry fields are also not as wide. To give the user a way to visualize > how their tabstops will look, the textsize in the entry fields is very > small. This gives the right ratio between field width and text size, so that > they get a fairly accurate idea of the text placement in the header or > footer as they slide the tabstops around. > > So now the client says the text is too small to read easily (which is true) > and he'd like it legible. Problem is, if I increase the text size, the > relative ratio of the tabstops will not be accurate and the fields will not > display the relative text placement correctly. > > I need a clever idea on how to display accurate text positioning while > maintaining legibility. I've thought of a few things, but nothing I like. > Tooltips that show what the text says might be one way, but I don't really > like that much. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
