That's a great book - read a couple years back. The one example that sticks in my mind is - don;t put a pull handle on a door if you can only push it open!
I'm feeling a lot better about editing groups now but there are still some circumstances that I don;t see any alternative but to ungroup and group again. Specifically, if there is an existing control that I want to place into a group. Using the Edit Group function doesn't help with that. Yes, I could have used the message box to create the control in the group but in this case, I didn't know I would want it in the group ahead of time (due to a card redesign). Plus I'd be much more inclined to do that if created controls bore at least some close resemblance to the controls created by dragging them from the tools palette! On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2...@gmail.com>wrote: > This conversation brings me memories from > the book "The Psychology of Everyday Things". > Now renamed as "The Design of Everyday Things" > > http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0385267746 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things > > http://www.geocities.ws/serga_n_y/week6.html > > - Understand the causes of errors and design to minimize errors > - Make it possible to undo actions before errors occur > - Make it easier to discover errors, and make them easier to correct > - Change our attitude toward errors. There are many ways to deal with > potential errors. > > A simple popUp warning about the correct way to edit nested groups > could prevent many foreseable problems in the future. > > These warnings should be available for new installations with the > prevision that advanced users should be able to turn them off > ONE by ONE. > > Al > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Nested-Group-Frustrations-tp4246507p4247272.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
