Undo (UI Concept)

2009-04-17 Thread K . Darcy Otto
I am writing a program which has a two-column table. The user can fill in the table with whatever he or she wishes, but sometimes it is possible to determine what should be displayed in the left column by looking at what is displayed in the right column. I have set up the program so that

Re: Undo (UI Concept)

2009-04-17 Thread Clark Cox
IMHO, if the user performed a single action to get to the current state, then it shouldn't take more than one undo to get to the previous state. So, as a user, I'd prefer #2. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:26 AM, K.Darcy Otto do...@csusb.edu wrote: I am writing a program which has a two-column table.

Re: Undo (UI Concept)

2009-04-17 Thread K . Darcy Otto
Yes, I was thinking this too, at first. But then I started to look around to see if I could find analogous situations. The closest I can come is when Pages has a table - let's say 2x2. When the user is in the bottom right cell, and presses tab, two things happen simultaneously: the data

Re: Undo (UI Concept)

2009-04-17 Thread Alex Kac
I would not use Pages as a model for undo. There are quite a few areas where its undo are horrific and wrong and have caused me to lose data. On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:48 AM, K.Darcy Otto wrote: Yes, I was thinking this too, at first. But then I started to look around to see if I could find

Re: Undo (UI Concept)

2009-04-17 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
The problem with the 2 undo approach is when you start to think about redo. What append if you undo twice and redo once. - You restore only one value, and get a state that should not be possible as the inference function would have complete the last row if it was done by the user. - You