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Re: cascading sheets and HIG
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Re: cascading sheets and HIG


  • Subject: Re: cascading sheets and HIG
  • From: Jonathan Hendry <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:35:23 -0500

On Sunday, Jan 26, 2003, at 12:43 America/New_York, Andy Lee wrote:

At 1:41 AM -0700 1/26/03, Alex Rice wrote:
On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 11:40 PM, Jonathan Hendry wrote:

Just my $.02, but I *hate* waiting for sheets to unfurl, and any program that subjected me to a *series* of sheets would have to be *really* important to prevent me from trashing it.

There's gotta be a less user-hostile way of doing it.

I agree, it's by no means the best solution.
[...]
I'm still thinking about the best way to bundle those up to present to the user in a more friendly way.


How about using just one sheet but having its contents change as you progress from step to step? You could fill the sheet with a tabless tabview, where each tab contains what you are now putting in its own sheet. Instead of closing the sheet, "OK" would switch to the next tab. The last tab's "OK" button would close the sheet.


That sounds good. It would avoid another problem with the multiple sheets:

the user gets a sheet, deals with it, she thinks she can move on, it
slides away, then DOH! another one slides out. So she deals with that one,
thinks, NOW, she must be done, it slides away, then DOH! another one slides
out. Etc.

My complaint with sheets is mostly speed related, but this behavior would
get irritating regardless of how fast the sheets animate.
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