On 10/03/02 8:15 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/3/02 4:55 AM, "Robert Blau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Yes, I understand that. What I don't understand is which 100? Is there >> anyway to have the contact menu display the 100 that I want? > > No, it's just the first 100, which are sorted by first name, no less. It > just gives those first 100 as a sort of visual feedback to new (first-time) > users that contacts are what is dealt with in that text box. By the time > you've got more than 100 contacts, you're supposed to be aware that you can > just type in any contact's name there. (Last name will work as well as first > name.) It doesn't seem exactly intuitive to me. Since they really can't > allow for 7000 names there that might be in your Address Book and i suppose > it was too much effort to implement a 100 or 200-name "most recently used" > contact list there, perhaps they should have just dropped the idea of a > drop-down at all. If I ever write a book on user interface design, this sort of thing will certainly be included as an example of bad practice. When a program appears to provide a certain function, that program should not impose concealed or undocumented limits on that function which could confuse the user or cause incorrect conclusions. Another notorious example of this is found in the "find-by-content" indexing feature in Mac OS (at least in OS 9 and earlier, I'm not sure about X). I think the indexing only saves the first 2000 unique tokens in a document. This means that the search within content is not trustworthy. A search for a particular term MAY find SOME of the documents which contain the term, but it is not gauranteed to find ALL documents that contain it. There are performance and space reasons for setting such a limit, but I don't think it is mentioned in Apple's promotional or user guide materials, and most users are surprised to learn of it. I discovered this limit in practice, when I noticed that my find-by-content searches were frequently failing to find documents that I knew contained my search terms. -- Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
