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Re: Appropriate control for a set
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Re: Appropriate control for a set


  • Subject: Re: Appropriate control for a set
  • From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:51:33 -0500
  • Organization: Rogue Research

On 2007-02-20 16:32, Claudio Procida said:

>Text Fields are tailored on strings, Popup Buttons are good for
>enum's, but how should I prompt the user for a set?
>
>What is the best UI control (or combination of) to allow the user to
>choose one or more values from a set? A matrix of checkboxes scares
>me...

It depends how many.  If you are talking about on the order of 10, then
I'd say I bunch of checkboxes is ok.  Otherwise a list with a checkbox
column perhaps.

Have you read this chapter of the HIG?
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/
OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGControls/chapter_18_section_1.html>

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Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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