On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> what's the best strategy for error reporting ? More specifically, whn
> you expose a dialog box to get some user's input, we do check some of
> the values. If one of them is invalid, we currently change the font to
> red, but there is no place we say what's wrong, and that would be
> convenient.
>
> What do you think would be the best approach ?
>
not much expertise in User eXperience design, but here I mention my opinion
as a user
> - logging ? (that would be a bit useless, IMO, except for tracing the
> inputs)
> - status line ? (do we have one ?)
>
nope, status line is not an ideal place for displaying errors, it is at the
bottom and generally
less concentrated are in UI (unless you are a IDE user ;)
> - a special zone in each dialog/windo ?
>
nope
> - a bullet associated to teh input box ?
>
> +1, an asterisk or a question mark with a label displaying error message or
displaying the error in a tooltip is fine, especially if message is
too big.
Thanks !
>
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