[drats_users] Program Help Contents

[Arnold Harding]

I was trying to keep it simple, but I see your point.  Maybe the ? & 
Bubble works.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Smith" <dsmith at danplanet.com>
To: "Discussion of D-RATS" <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [drats_users] Program Help Contents


> Hi Arnold,
>
>> I have an idea for possibly adding slight instructions to the
>> program without incurring a lot of trouble.  Many configuration
>> pages have empty space.  Why not use it?  If the picture came
>> through, I think you'll see my idea.  (If the picture didn't get
>> through, then I'll post it somewhere.)
>
> The picture came through, just under the limit :)
>
> This is a good idea, however the "empty space" is not guaranteed to
> stay, as I regularly add new configuration options that fill the
> space.  Comparing the first pane on 0.2. and 0.3 is a good example 
> of
> that.  I would hesitate to add instructions in this way which could
> either need to be removed in the future to make way, or would 
> require
> adding additional pages just to find more space.
>
> Out of curiosity, is there any reason that the tooltips provided for
> most of the configuration options can't house the required
> information?  If we need to stuff more information into each of the
> tooltips, that's certainly possible.
>
> Another option would be a specific button which allows the user to 
> ask
> for information about a specific value.  If each of the 
> configuration
> options had a "?" button off to one side that popped up a larger 
> help
> bubble, would that be better?
>
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