[Bf-funboard] Toolbox 6

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:52:52AM +1000, Luke Wenke wrote:
> ...
> The diagonal lines are still a bit too distracting.

They are still needed to give a hint about the functioning of the menu.

>  The hotkeys are good.
> They're quite subtle... I barely noticed them at first. The arrow should
> maybe be a filled in small triangle. (< looks a bit odd)

I tested filled triangels of different shape and size. Either too small, 
so they look more like dots, or too big and important. Because of the small 
distance to the very important first letters of the items they have to step 
back a little bit. But I agree in that the current arrows are a bit odd.

> For "Relation" you could call it Track/Parent

Such pairs with a slash are simply unelegant. And it's quite long. But 
it leaves no doubt about the contents, so I will think about it.

> I like how you've got the submenus show up ("Add") when you're typing, as
> well as the hotkeys...

Good to hear.

> The way the text-field expands when you type looks good. BTW, if OSA is
> renamed (which I think it should be) you could just type AA. Though on
> second thoughts I guess that might pollute the A section a bit too much.
> Especially if there was AA5, AA8, AA11, AA16, AA on, AA off...

Naming will become a nightmare if you start to optimize initial letters 
for autocompletion!

> BTW, maybe if you hold your mouse over one spot for half a second or 1
> second, a tooltip could appear that may be 2 or 3 lines long. If your mouse
> is in the centre where the typing thing is it could explain that you can
> type in commands rather than use the menus.

Sure. But tooltips have absolutely low priority for me right now.

> BTW, I think if the user moves too far away from the menus, they should
> disappear (except for the main toolbox) and if they move further still, then
> the toolbox could disappear. But menus shouldn't disappear if you move only
> 1 pixel away. 

Menus diapperar when you move out of them. An aditional invisible save border 
could lead to uncertainty.

> Menu items should always be highlighted when the mouse is over
> the top of them so you know which item you are potentially going to be click
> on. 

Exactly like I mean it to be. I guess I should include a mousecursor 
in my images.

And multiple items might be highlighted - e.g. if you move of "Boolean
> Op." and then "Union", both of the menu items would be highlighted.
> - Luke.

Yes, sure. It's just I have no example of that on my page.


Have I now reached a level where you might say, that you would like to see 
this implemented?


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Thorsten