On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Chipp Walters asked:
Dan, can you give an example where "progressive discovery" works well?Not off the top of my head with current apps I'm using (probably because it's become so automagic that I don't think about it any more) but Claris SmartForms Designer, for example, had a single dialog that was useful in a number of circumstances. When the dialog opened, it did so understanding the context in which it was invoked so that only the controls I needed in that context were visible. But I could change the purpose (re-focus the dialog) by selecting another item from a popup menu. IN that case, a new minimal set of controls would appear. I'd make a choice from a radio button set and the center of the dialog would transform (or fill if it was empty) with the set of options peculiar to that choice. So I only had one dialog box, ever, for this relatively large set of issues.
That seemed to me to be very efficient.
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