> Same as in the tabular-dialog? Well you don't need a button controler > if you do that, but what you need is a lot of interaction with the > main core as the dialogs should update automatically to the new cursor > position. After that you cannot f.ex. apply a paragraph layout to more > than one paragraph only if you select them before but maybe you want > to exclude some in the middle then you have to go to every paragraph > and do the same actions again. Are you really sure this is the best > option? It seems good in general but then if you have a look at the > details it seems to me not that good in "every" case. >
Certainly there will be cases where this philosophy doesn't apply. In those cases I'll have to consult the gurus and ask what they'd do. f.ex the Preferences dialog (everyone's favourite) is *huge* and I couldn't apply with every change of state. However FormERT can. I guess I'll just have to decide on some arbitrary division between 'properties' and 'utility' and design accordingly. Perhaps some of my problems will help flesh out the HIG. -- ======================================================================== | Michael Koziarski |"Conventional wisdom is often | | Data Engineer, Linux user | long on convention and short | | & Objectivist. | on wisdom" -- | | http://www.koziarski.com | Warren E. Buffett, BRK.A | ========================================================================
