Hello Landon, if you are looking for some literatur about UI design standards, maybe you should read the articles from Karsten Lentsch (Developer of JGoodies). http://www.jgoodies.com/articles/
JGoodies Forms (with the FormLayout) and JGoodies Data Binding are worth to have a look at. Greetings, Malte Sunburned Surveyor schrieb: > I've been doing a little work in NetBean's Matisse on some of the > interfaces for my new editing tools. I was wondering if either JUMP or > OpenJUMP had any standard for user interface design. Here are some of > the questions that came up during my work. I'd like to get other > developers comments. If we don't have an existing standard, perhaps we > can work with the different JUMP/OpenJUMP development teams and Vivid > Solutions to come up with one. The answer to some of these questions > will no doubt have to do with i18n constraints. I'm not at all an > expert in this area, and I will be looking for some help. > > *[1]* What font, font weight, and color should be used for "normal" or > "regular" text? > *[2]* What font, font wieght, and color should be used for "title" or > "heading" text"? Should this be a different font at all? > *[3]* Do we prefer images for buttons, or text labels? (For example, > if I have a button that deletes something, do I use a big red x or a > text label that says "Delete"?) Do we have a standard icon set that we > would like to use? > *[4]* Do we want a standard size or width/height ratio for pop-up dialogs? > *[5]* Do we want to have some rules about layout of the top-level menu > of the program. For example, instead of having a top-level menu entry > for every plug-in and project perhaps we should have a limited number > of top-level menues and require plug-ins to contribute their menue > entries under one of the top-level menue entries. (For example, > instead of having a top-level "SurveyOS" menu entry, I would place > "SurveyOS" under the top-level "Tools" menue entry. Then I would fill > a sub-menu brought up by the Tools>SurveyOS menu entry. > *[6]* Would we like to have a standard "JPP" or "OpenJUMP" logo that > can be used in interface design? > *[7]* Should we require a common location and arrangement for the > "OK", "Cancel" and "Apply" buttons that appear on most dialogs? > > I appreciate everyone sharing with me their answers to these > questions. I think it would be great if we could get some GUI > consistency across plug-ins, and even across "brands" of > JUMP/OpenJUMP. I'm not suggesting that plug-in developers would have > to follow this standard, but that we could make a "suggested" standard > available. > > The Sunburned Surveyor > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
