[drats_users] sending a file

[Nate Duehr]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:47:00 -0700, "Dan Smith" <dsmith at danplanet.com>
said:
> > This doesn't seem at all as obvious as the 0.2 stuff.  I didn't need 
> > to ask with that.

> What do other people think?

I could easily tell you'd moved the file transfers to the new tab, but I
couldn't figure out that I had to type a callsign into that small box on
the top right, or use it as a drop-down, if the local copy had "heard"
another station.

Once you clued me in on that, the rest was fairly obvious... although I
do have a dislike for features that ONLY have icons and no text in
english to tell you what they are.  (But I think you put mouse-overs on
the buttons, which is how I figured out what each button was for.)

It wasn't "intuitive" but it wasn't horrible either, once I got past
that "there's a blank box up there -- what do I do with it"?

Not sure if the GUI widgets you're using can do this, but a common thing
nowadays seems to be to have a word sitting INSIDE the data entry box in
a grey font/usually italicized, that says something like "callsign" or
"address" -- that disappears when you start typing information into the
field, or press the drop-down button.  That seems common UI stuff on
forms these days, but no clue if the GUI widget you're using has a
feature to make that easy to do or not.

Nate WY0X
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