One way to eliminate the possibility of accidental transfers is a mandatory confirmation window on the transfer when it's done via dragging an edit window. When the item is dragged, a confirmation box wouldn't be necessary.. just when dragging the window. On the other hand, I don't know of any other interface that creates actions upon dragging a window.
Regards Teravus On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Ricky <kf6...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very good question, and was the reason for my note bout accidental > inventory transfers. > > The solution I alluded to was to pop up an "are you sure" style dialog > box. However, I hate those with a passion. So I'm fishing for more > optimal solutions. It is possible there may be no good solution to > this difficulty, but at least it will have been discussed, and may > spawn other improvements or be revisited later. > > Ricky > Cron Stardust > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Baloo Uriza <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:25:05 -0700, Ricky wrote: >> >>> Well, she was recently instructed by my dad (an advanced user like >>> myself) to send him a notecard she was editing. She asked how. My dad >>> instructed her to "drag it to the IM window." This she knew how to >>> find. She then complained that it didn't work. This brought me to look >>> at what she was doing. She was trying to drag the notecard edit window >>> onto the chat popup to send him the notecard. >> >> Sounds like your mom might also be relatively inexperienced with working >> with subwindows as well. However, the instructions given to her could >> have been slightly more clear as well; "drag it to the IM window from >> your inventory" might have worked better. >> >>> Because of this, I would like to put forth the suggestion for further >>> study of allowing the user to drag asset windows (notecards, textures, >>> etc.) onto the varied existing ways of sending content. (IMs, Profile >>> pages, etc) >> >> How would you differentiate someone trying to reorganize subwindows >> within a viewer with inventory transfer events, then? I think that >> problem makes this suggestion entirely unworkable in practice. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
