In general hiding bit of you interface depending on the state/
selection of you app is considered bad because it can confuse the
user, if you disable elements then you are tell the user that the
element is not available for the current state/selection etc., if you
you hide elements then the user may think they have forgotten how to
get to a particular feature and become frustrated as they try to find
it. Also hiding elements can in some cases cause the remaining
elements to move around which can allow confuse users (menu items for
example), I am not saying you are wrong to do this in your case, only
you can decided that.
On 13/10/2009, at 1:53 AM, BareFeet wrote:
I have a hierarchical list of objects, like the typical iTunes or
XCode left pane. When the user selects a node in this hierarchy, I
display detail of that node in the pane on the right. This right
pane is divided into tab view items. Only some of the tab view items
are relevant to each type of node, so I'd like to hide the tab view
items that are not relevant. How can I do this?
Nathan Day
http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/
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