On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:02:15PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Clearly that works. The bit about it that worries me is whether
it will be obvious to a user that OK and Paste are insensitive
*because* no variables have yet been selected. In the case where
no variables at all exist,
John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:21:16AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> > examples, procedures can't run without any data, so should we
> > gray out the Analyze menu until there's data?
> >
> > I think not. Procedures can run wi
John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jason Stover writes:
> > [sensible stuff]
> [more sensible stuff]
Sounds good. Let's make this our informal GUI design policy for
the moment, until it needs changes. (Presuming you're OK with
it, John--you're kind in the driver's seat on the GUI.)
>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:00:55PM -0400, Jason Stover wrote:
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:10:29PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I wonder what everyone thinks about designing a "good" GUI (at
> least, one that we think is good) versus designing one that works
> the same way. Do
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:21:16AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> examples, procedures can't run without any data, so should we
> gray out the Analyze menu until there's data?
>
> I think not. Procedures can run without data, although in most cases
> they will give
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:10:29PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I wonder what everyone thinks about designing a "good" GUI (at
> least, one that we think is good) versus designing one that works
> the same way. Do you think that users will be confused by the
> changes, or do you think that they will
John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:10:29PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> The reason I left out Z-scores from my initial DESCRIPTIVES
> dialog design was that I didn't think that they made any logical
> sense there. It seems to be that they should
I'll deal with the gui philosphy questions in a seperate thread, when
I've got more time.
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:10:29PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
The reason I left out Z-scores from my initial DESCRIPTIVES
dialog design was that I didn't think that they made any logical
sense th
My attempt at a DESCRIPTIVES dialog box has prompted some
questions. The first one is well posed by jmd, who writes in
comment #1 on patch #6219:
> Putting all the options in a treeview is a good idea. However
> it departs from the user interface of the Chicargo company's
> software. I've been te
