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Greyed-Out vs Invisible
What is a good criterion or rule-of-thumb for determining when a control should be greyed-out and when should it be completely invisible?
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hide vs disable and redistribute empty space
I have complex UI form dialog with ~12 tabs and want to decide what is best:
enable/disable (gray out) fields - classic convention
hide/show if not necessary - could be confusing + jumping GUI
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Button placement while others ones are invisible/disabled
I have a tool bar of buttons. The state changes every time user interact with it (fig. 1).
Fig. 1
Sometimes application allows user to refresh view only, so other buttons are invisible (fig. 2).
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