Often, this type of control has a call to action such as "Choose an item", as opposed an indication "No selection". It depends on the context of your control. If a selection is required in your set up, the call to action is more communicative. Otherwise, if "No selection" is a valid selection then that type of message should work.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 7/2/15, 8:47 AM, "Peter Haworth" <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: >Good point. For lots of reasons, the names of my option menus aren't >suitable for display to a user. Maybe the cleanest thing to do then is, if >the text of the menu is empty, set its label as suggested by Richard. I >like that. Most of the menus in question are under the control of a >behavior so this is easy to implement. > >On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, 8:28 AM Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> >wrote: > >> Peter Haworth wrote: >> >> > So my technique of setting showname to false if the text is empty is >>the >> > only way round this? >> > >> > Also, you can have a label for an option menu with empty text. Try >> setting >> > the text of an option menu to empty, then use the message box to set >>its >> > label to some value. >> >> With the OS X HIGs not nearly as complete as they used to be I can no >> longer find the relevant section on this, but I believe most HIGs >> suggest that we avoid giving the user the impression the control may be >> broken by replacing empty items with some explanation of why it's empty, >> or perhaps a disabled item simply saying "None". >> >> -- >> Richard Gaskin >> Fourth World Systems >> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web >> ____________________________________________________________________ >> ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.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 >> >_______________________________________________ >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 _______________________________________________ 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
