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- Item 9966214 22-Dec-89 10:43
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- From: MADA2 MacApp Dev Assoc, Curtis Faith
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- To: D1282 -> POWERUP.DEV Power Up,PRT
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: RE: Inf. Scroller - BAD!
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- James,
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- I must side with John Pelevich.
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- I think that what you are really looking for is a way to have the user set the
- dates which will be displayed in you view.
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- Why not use the same approach that the Mac uses to set dates? One can either
- type in a date or use the arrows control to the right to set them. Thus if one
- wants December 1914 he can type that in or if he merely wants to run back a few
- months he can click the down arrow a bit.
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- If you want you could have an arrow control for months and years so that you
- could have various levels of control.
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- If you feel compelled to have a scrollbar it should merely allow the user to
- see a given portion of a fixed amount of time. In other words you might say
- that 3 months are in the scroller and that the arrows set which 3 months. If
- the scroller is too small to display all 3 months then it would perform its
- normal function of allowing one to see various portions of those 3 months.
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- I am strongly against non-standard user interfaces of any type. I spent a
- considerable time using AtOnce accounting and they use their own type of scroll
- bars and it really annoyed me. I passionately hated that part of the
- application, I mean HATE.
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- I have lots of applications, a tiny fraction have found it necessary to use
- non-standard items (even those weren't really needs).
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- Please stick to the standard interface items.
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- - Curtis
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