On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:17 PM, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote:
> > I would much prefer to edit a well thought out and documented config file > > than use pretty much any Grunt n' Click interface. > > People who come from Win and OSX are not used to that, so it seems crude > to > > # This gives a maxvel of 12.5/1 = 12.5 ips > # > # these are in nanoseconds > DIRSETUP = 1000 > DIRHOLD = 20000 > STEPLEN = 500 > STEPSPACE = 4000 > Agree. Yes the above is a perfect example of the worst possible user interface design I can't see any place there the four parameter names are described. And there is zero enforcement of any rules or even basic sanity checking. At the very least this could have been implemented with an HTML form where clicking on the parameter name brings up a pop-up wit the parameter's definition and clicking on the value allows either direct entry or a calculator. Then a validation is run to see that all values are valid and self-consistant. The text editor allows the user to do things like DIRSETUP = 1w4r Which is just about the poorest user interface design possible as it fails to catch even basic syntactical errors until AFTER the user has canceled out of the form. Seriously, who ould design an interface that tell you about simple typo only AFTER closing out the screen where you enter the data? A reasonable design would at least catch an obvious error when the user clicks "submit" or "save" A better design would not allow bad data to be entered. Curent bast practice is to inform the use as soon as it is logically possible. Point is you do NOT have to give up flexibility for correct and modern design you can have both and all it takes is a simple HTML form and some javascript. Of it you don't like that Java/Swing or whatever. A correctly design interface would allow exactly the same amount of flexibility but would also provide information about what neds to be entered, have links to a reference text and then validate the user's entry. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
