| Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] Question about how to handle best practice |
Right - contrary to what I said, Eclipse Platform/JDT/PDE wizards don't show an icon when a wizard comes up (i.e. no INFO icon). Sorry if this caused confusion.
Boris
Eugene Kuleshov wrote on 12/10/2008 03:19:37 PM:
>
> I would drop info icon from the message and maybe also use sensible
> defaults in the drop down (e.g. previously chosen value or drivers
> available by default).
>
> By the way, if I am remembering correctly issue about not showing
> errors when wizard is shown is stated in the Eclipse UI guidelines.
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/User_Interface_Guidelines#Initialization_2
>
> regards,
> Eugene
>
>
> brian.fitzpatrick@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Thanks guys... So you'd recommend something along these lines:
> >
> >
> >
> > Brian Fitzpatrick
> > Eclipse Data Tools Platform PMC Chair
> > Eclipse Data Tools Platform Connectivity Team Lead
> > Staff Software Engineer, Sybase, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> > *Boris Bokowski <Boris_Bokowski@xxxxxxxxxx>*
> > Sent by: ui-best-practices-working-group-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > 12/10/2008 11:46 AM
> >
> >
> > To
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> > Subject
> > Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] Question about how to
> > handle best practice
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Francis Upton wrote on 12/10/2008 01:19:40 PM:
> > > What I have done in this case, is to have the message appear as it
> > > is, but just without the error icon (when the dialog is first
> > > presented), you can use an info icon I think. I think the message
> > > at the top is useful. Then if the user does something to cause the
> > > selection to be empty, it can have the error icon like it does now.
> >
> > Yes, this is what the Platform and JDT wizards are doing. We start out
> > with an INFO rather than ERROR status. Finish and Next would be
> > disabled of course. If the user enters something and then clears
> > again, you would show an ERROR status.
> >
> > > It's sometimes unpleasant to do all of the special handling for
> > > these cases, and I don't know of a standard easy pattern (other than
> > > the first time flag). :)
> >
> > If your wizard uses data binding,
> > org.eclipse.jface.databinding.wizard.WizardPageSupport does all that
> > special handling for you. See also
> > org.eclipse.jface.examples.databinding.snippets.Snippet014WizardDialog
> > in org.eclipse.jface.examples.databinding.
> >
> > Boris
>
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