On 19.05.2011 15:30, tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote:
On 19.05.2011 12:59, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
Not necessarily - anyway, LibreOffice for example is not opposing
apply buttons - http://vmiklos.hu/blog/lo-apply - and response to that
is positive throughout - so OOo probably should reconsider as well.
On 2011/05/19 20:34, Mathias Bauer wrote:
Nice, sure. But as it would only take a few hours of work(*) to
convert e.g. the "format character" dialog into a modeless one (been
there, done it), I wouldn't waste my time with intermediate steps.
From my point of view, having an "Apply" button is sort of a wrong
direction. Namely "waste of time" :-)
1. Largely increase a font size. (nothing happens)
2. Click on "Apply." (preview image is updated) Oops, too large.
3. Slightly decrease a font size. (nothing happens)
4. Click on "Apply." (preview image is updated) Good.
5. OK
Each "Control" in a dialog can react when its value is changed. Why is
the "Apply" button needed?
Sure, that would be even a step further (replace dialog by side pane or
so). But this definitely would be more work to do as you need to
reimplement all the controls on the tabpages. A modeless dialog with an
"Apply" button would be a nice first step into the right direction.
Reacting on changes is only one problem to solve. The other is changing
the controls when the selection changes. The same you see in the
toolbars. Our dialogs already have a method that updates all controls of
the current page when called. So my idea was to use this method for
updates and use the existing framework to trigger the update.
Regards,
Mathias
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