I have a UI on a thick client which has a textbox to enter number of minutes. These number of minutes are used by the application to determine when should the save operation be performed. Like if a user enters 5, the save operation is performed every 5 minutes. I am confused as to what text should the label of this textbox have. I am attaching an image just for clarity sake.
IMO, It looks good, but unless the requirements ask for decimals in the minutes, I's just use integer numbers (5 instead of 5.0).
In our application we have
"Autosave every [5 ] minute(s)"
What I don't like in your box, is the decimal point.
Due to the fact that a minute has 60, not 100 seconds, many people might find filling fractions of a minutes counter-intuitive.
While 5 minutes and a half is easy, what about the situation if for some reason, somebody wanted the auto-save to run every 5 minutes and 10 seconds?
What I would proposes, it either splitting the two: minutes and seconds between two fields, or leaving only one of them to be specified.
