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| bio | website | phrogz.net |
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| location | Boulder, CO | |
| age | 40 | |
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| seen | May 12 at 3:42 | |
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I like Ruby, Lua, Io, JavaScript…and my real-life children and wife :)
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May 8 |
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Name for a combo box that shows and edits multiple items? Barring a definitive answer for a generally-accepted name, I'd also welcome comments on other examples of this input or discussions on it; they may help lead to a consensus. |
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Apr 18 |
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TDI vs SDI - when should an app that saves files to disk have one window per “document”? @Brocka 1. Apple HIG; 2. Side-by-side comparisons: 3. Lack of Proxy Document in title bar for OS X. |
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Oct 9 |
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Representing the presence of short events in a long timeline Despite the white area in my mockup above, there are no pauses between events. (The 'events' are actually the different execution states of a process.) Good advice in general, thanks. |
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Oct 8 |
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Representing the presence of short events in a long timeline OK, I see. If using only colors, how would you differentiate different kinds of events versus the number of different categories? |
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Oct 8 |
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Representing the presence of short events in a long timeline So your answer is "use colors, and I don't like one of your ideas"? Seems like a comment, not a design. |
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Oct 4 |
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Conventional keyboard modifier for expanding/collapsing hierarchical tree view An excellent point. There isn't currently, but there will be in an upcoming release. |
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Oct 4 |
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Conventional keyboard modifier for expanding/collapsing hierarchical tree view A very nice suggestion; unfortunately I can't 'stand on a collapsed item', as the items are not selectable. |
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May 19 |
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Control to select (not open) a file on windows @James See the answers below and Rahul's correct interpretation. The design aspect is mimicking common interface for choosing a file and seeing the path. The control will cause a standard Open dialog to appear, but the question is about the display of the control to pick and show the result. |
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May 19 |
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Control to select (not open) a file on windows The image you have included is what I am looking for. What app is that? |
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May 11 |
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Common/accepted name for “dropdown menus” and related kin? @Matt The goal is to see if there is a single accepted name that unambiguously differentiates these when describing UI elements in a specification document. Based on the details I'm finding and adding to this answer, it appears that you are correct: there is no unique term across all platforms and technologies. |
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May 11 |
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Common/accepted name for “dropdown menus” and related kin? @Matt Actually, Microsoft calls them different things. |
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May 11 |
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Common/accepted name for “dropdown menus” and related kin? @Matt Ah, I will crop that from the screenshot. Note that the text never indicated anything about that button, but I understand your confusion. |
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May 11 |
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Common/accepted name for “dropdown menus” and related kin? @Matt I'm confused. Why do you think that the items or ordering in list are not the same as the items or ordering in my question? Also, that link is used as the citation from Wikipedia to support the statement "The term 'combo box' is sometimes, incorrectly, used to mean 'drop-down list'." |
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May 11 |
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Common/accepted name for “dropdown menus” and related kin? Your own link for #1 says that it uses the term "Combo Box" to refer to what I describe as #2. |
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May 11 |
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Common/accepted name for “dropdown menus” and related kin? Interestingly, your link refers to my #1 as a "drop-down menu" and Mozilla's menulist documentation calls it a "drop-down list". Mozilla's docs also say of #2 "This is rendered as a textbox with a drop-down arrow beside it." |
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May 11 |
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Common/accepted name for “dropdown menus” and related kin? @Benny That name, to me, does not connote that there is the 'triangle' allowing users to select from a predefined or common list of values. |
