Very nice! The mouse/keyboard interactive is well done, I only worry
that the buttons are now too sparse. I think delete and edit buttons
would still be useful, maybe people don't use keyboard shortcuts at all.
Also, on Mac OS X, Delete is not commonly used, so it would be good
to also have BackSpace work for deleting. Or maybe Cmd-BackSpace
since that is what is used for deleting in the Finder.
.hc
On May 18, 2008, at 9:46 AM, David Golightly wrote:
A note on the latest changes: I removed all the list manipulation
buttons and added the following bindings:
- The list items can be re-ordered by drag-and-drop.
- Clicking on a list item allows you to edit it.
- Clicking anywhere else in the listbox allows you to add a new
list item.
- You can also traverse the list using up and down arrow keys, then
press "Enter" to change the selected item.
- Press "Delete" to delete the currently selected list item.
I kept around the "New..." button, since it may not be immediately
obvious to newbies how to add new things to the list.I also removed the "Save all settings" button and folded its action
in to the "Apply" command (and, by extension, the OK command). I
played around with trying to get an in-place editable listbox
control for the Startup dialog, but to no avail - it's apparently
no trivial task in Tcl/Tk. Perhaps for a future revision.
However, the popup dialog functions effective the same, as "Enter"
will submit your edit and "Esc" will cancel; once you get used to
it it shouldn't be much different.I'm also now centering the dialog windows on the screen. I'd like
to do this also (especially) for the "Properties" dialogs that are
used to edit GUI controls. Tk like to try and "cascade" new
dialogs as they appear; this is too clever by half, and really
annoying once if you do a lot of editing. But I've only tested
this centering behavior on my own Macbook 15" screen, so it would
be great if others could verify it's still usable on other screen
sizes.One other thing: these dialogs can now be resized, but they appear
at their minimum size, so you can't shrink them any further (you
can only expand them).Please let me know what you think and as always let me know if you
run into any trouble!Thanks, David
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:06 PM, David Golightly
davigoli@gmail.com wrote: Ok, with the path/startup dialogs, this is about the feature set
I'd like to end up with for now. Please, everyone, review it for
usability & obvious bugs, and if it looks good I'll submit it as a
patch.Thanks,
David
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Steffen Juul stffn@dibidut.dk
wrote:On 14/05/2008, at 0.16, marius schebella wrote:
David Golightly wrote: Keep in mind I'm still learning Tcl/Tk, so some of these ideas, while excellent, are a little beyond my technical grasp at this point and may be improvements that we make incrementally over time. Also, I have a limited
amount of my time to budget for this kind of workdavid, if you spend 1 hour on coding and one hour on documenting of how to
get to that step, (instead of 2 hours coding), then the chance that more people will be able to jump in is bigger. tcl/tk is new to most
people. being able to concentrate on design and ui aspects would make life easier. the hard part is to get started.Especially since the names in Tk are to my experience somewhat
different to what one put in the search bar, ie. of my/your(?)/ normal vocabulary.Example: tabs ~= notebook. See http://wiki.tcl.tk/2298
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