Dr. Hawkins wrote:

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

>> What is "the other way?"
>>
>> I almost never click anything other than results from the search
>> list. I open the Dict window, type my query, review the results.
>>
>> What would we do to improve this?
>
> In 7, you can click on the side to narrow, but the default is "all"
>
> In 8, it's a pull-down button, and as near as I can tell, there is
> nothing resembling "all"
>
> 7 could also filter to sub levels by clicking the triangles for the
> subcategories.

I see, thanks.

Aooarently the filters act as toggles. When you select one a button with that name appears, which can later be clicked to remove it. So after applying filters, removing all of them will return to "all".

LiveCode is a pretty good toolkit for building UIs. In my experience far less work for desktop GUUs than using HTML/CSS.

Maybe we can use LC to make a great Dictionary UI?

--
 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World Systems

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